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Service Oriented Infrastructures including Grid and Cloud Computing are technologies in a critical transition to wider adoption by business. Their use may enable enterprises to achieve optimal IT utilization, including sharing resources and services across-enterprises and on-demand utilization of those made available by business partners over the network. This chapter presents an introduction to, and an overview of, a selection of common capabilities (i.e. services capturing reusable functionality of IT solutions) that have been applied to tackle challenging business problems and were validated in real-life business trials covering most European market sectors. The remaining of the book elaborates these results, explains the process that was used to produce them.
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Dimitrakos, T. (2010). Introduction. In: Dimitrakos, T., Martrat, J., Wesner, S. (eds) Service Oriented Infrastructures and Cloud Service Platforms for the Enterprise. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04086-3_1
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