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Summary

OSIDs help level the playing field such that small efforts can interoperate in the larger enterprise games.

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Not Just About the Enterprise

Much of the OSID message has been framed around complex large-scale systems. That's because it's easier to see the problems there and there's the appearance that more design rigor is warranted.

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Agile Enterprise: One Piece at a Time

An incremental development approach to OSID Providers does not need to continually expand and complicate its implementation to incorporate new behaviors and integrate with external systems. OSIDs can be used to divide a complex problem into smaller pieces that can be developed in parallel and federated together. The concept of layering is an essential integration technique that can also be used to factor out business-specific needs, organize code, or orchestrate other services such as authorization or logging.

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