Yahoo! faces a number of governance and strategic challenges in late 2011 as it tries to compete with rivals such as Google and find ways to monetize its shareholding and business links with Alibaba Group in China and Yahoo! Japan. The company is now valued at almost half the offer that Microsoft had made in its acquisition offer in 2008. The depth of the challenge is underscored by the frequent CEO changes the company has had, culminating in the recent firing of the latest CEO, Carol Bartz. The case examines the successes and failures at Yahoo! and the decisions now facing its board as it encounters investor pressure to improve performance.

Oracle SOA Suite simplifies connectivity by providing a unified experience to integrate across cloud, on premise, and business-to-business. Additional components included within the unified platform are the enterprise service bus as the foundation for shared services, process orchestration for business optimization, business rules for business agility, and business activity monitoring to deliver role-based business visibility.

Involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data. This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial (when two similar companies need to merge their databases) and scientific (combining research results from different bioinformatics repositories, for example) domains.

Composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple existing functions into a new application.

Business acumen is keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.

Cloud integration is the process of configuring multiple application programs to share data in the cloud.

Enterprise architecture program that will improve business and technology decisions is a comprehensive design and modeling tool chest for Software Development Life-cycle. Enterprise Architect is a progressive tool that covers all aspects of the development cycle, providing full traceability from the initial design phase through to deployment, maintenance, and testing and change control. Enterprise Architect is a visual platform for designing and constructing software systems, for business process modeling, and for more generalized modeling.

Our Solution Delivery services provide guidance and support for every phase of the project lifecycle – from concept to implementation, optimization and support. Solutions Delivery provides core business management solutions, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Application Integration. It is at the core of every successful consulting project. Solution Delivery services are directly involved in supporting customer projects for the entire solution lifecycle.
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