What often is referred to as a system actually does not pass as "system", but rather comes out as loosely coupled sub-systems and elements of general education.

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To gradually bring this new product experience to life, SAP is standardizing development on several core platforms, which, breaking the hard-coding paradigm, will be loosely coupled and naturally distributed.

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Analyses of our new ecosystem economics and the wealth generating benefits of loosely coupled, multi-layered partnerships that spell the end of the enterprise as we have known it to date.

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Even the small and mid-sized manufacturing operation is now part of a global network of loosely coupled entities that must collaborate and deliver real-time status information to customers, supply chain partners, organization leaders, and employees.

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An elevator-pitch definition of service oriented architecture would be: Loosely-coupled services with well-defined interfaces that provide business functionality and can be shared or reused across and beyond the enterprise.

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