years
  Simple (Level 1)
      ● Departmental

      ● Typically a single tactical solution for a business problem

      ● Web Services-based integration and service enablement - basic connectivity to important resources (mostly service-based data access layer)

      ● Provides an Application Platform Suite (Portal, Integration, Messaging) that allows development of fine-grained and coarse-grained services

      ● Service-oriented development of applications
  Medium (Level 2)
      ● Inter-departmental

      ● Provides a framework for composite application development with more than one application involved

      ● Promotes policy-based computing, policy management/SLA management

      ● ESB Support/distributed large deployment support (manage/deploy/administer)

      ● Registers, discovers, manages, and monitors all shared WS across the enterprise platform
  Complex (Level 3)
      ● Enterprise-wide

      ● Control & management of large distributed enterprise - agent based/fan-out technologies

      ● Policy-directed command-control fabric/uptime requirements/performance requirements

      ● Built in governance models for specific business processes

      ● Federated management (Level 4, most advanced, globally distributed)
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