Manfred Kroll is director of Business Architecture and Processes at Deutsche Post's MAIL division. As chief enterprise architect, his objective is to implement a cooperative, SOA-based application landscape pursuing an evolutionary approach. Before joining Deutsche Post MAIL, he held several management positions, most notably at IBM Development Labs and at T-Mobile. Kroll has a Masters degree in Computer Science from University Dortmund, Germany.
In a service-oriented architecture (SOA), a service is a unit of work performed by a service provider to achieve desired results for one or more service consumers. A service provides a function that is well defined, self-contained (for example, loosely coupled to its environment), desc...Dec. 27, 2005 09:15 PM EST Reads: 32,859 Replies: 1
