What Is Technical Agility?

Organizational research clearly states that if your organization desires to be future proofed to exist and achieve success, your organization must expect change, accept change, and embrace change in such a manner that opportunities presented by change are seized to develop competitive advantages in your specific business domain. The degree to which your organization can accommodate and leverage change is known as its organizational agility .

Taking the concept of organizational agility and applying it from a technical perspective implies that the application infrastructure you choose as a foundation software platform for your business solutions must be as fluid as the changing environment in which it exists, providing a catalyst for ongoing innovation and continuous return on investment based on your own organizational ROI criteria. Your application infrastructure, which in essence influences the development, deployment, management, and integration capabilities of your software solutions, is what will allow your technical architectures to naturally mold and adapt to your changing business requirements, as well as bridge interfaces between existing systems without costly and time-consuming infrastructure overhauls.

This chapter provides an introduction to BEA WebLogic Platform 7, a comprehensive application infrastructure offering, with built-in agility derived from proven and battle- tested BEA infrastructure technologies ”WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Integration, and WebLogic Workshop. This technology stack offers a single, unified, and extensible infrastructure platform for application development and provides a natural migration path for WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal, and WebLogic Integration customers seeking to deploy solutions that enhance or extend their existing technical environments via a single, integrated architecture.