The combination of software tools that enables an organization's various systems and applications ...

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E-commerce needs are driving companies to connect their business applications, such as ERP systems, both internally and externally through the Internet. Software designed with an SOA (service-oriented architecture) can be quickly deployed and reconfigured as business conditions require changes to the applications, databases, and other infrastructure hosted in data centers owned by a company. The combination of software tools that enables an organization's various systems and applications to communicate with other applications is called Web services. SAP's NetWeaver is a Web services platform that allows various vendor applications to share data over the Internet.