Kagermann detailed how business network transformation is happening globally, is transcending every industry and requires IT to take a strategic role in the business as collaboration and integration cross boundaries. Although business network transformation has been broached in the past, only now, with the mass adoption of enterprise SOA, can IT support change, collaboration and integration at the speed and cost required. The industry has embraced enterprise SOA because it provides a competitive advantage to the companies who leverage its architecture to work with their business networks across heterogeneous landscapes, to collaborate among people and communities and to connect using events and services.