Report

March 1999

Integrating Business Processes

Eric Brown 		Firms are integrating apps to meet new business demands. This will force a shift to process integration as the "app between the apps" -- and will prompt the emergence of process integration servers.
by Eric Brown with Ted Schadler, Amanda Ciardelli, Christine Overby

INTERVIEWS
  • Today, real-time links are hand-built and point-to-point.
ANALYSIS
  • Middleware and message brokers can't manage processes.
  • Process integration weaves corporate systems into large-scale, flexible business processes.
  • Process integration servers will provide complete platforms for graphical process development and analysis.
ACTION
  • Process integration apps lack clear ownership within IT, forcing the CIO to fund and champion integration initiatives.
WHAT IT MEANS
  • Portfolio assembly gains a critical technology.
  • Acquisition fever will strike the integration market.
 
Figures & Data
  • Figure 1.  The Fortune 1,000 Is Integrating In Real Time
  • Figure 2.  Application Integration Approaches
  • Figure 3.  The Benefits Of Process Integration
  • Figure 4.  The Evolution To Process Integration
  • Figure 5.  The Elements Of A Process Integration Server
  • Figure 6.  Existing Vendors Converge On Process Integration
  • Figure 7.  Help For Evaluating Process Integration Vendors
   
RELATED MATERIAL 
  • Research Process
  • Companies Interviewed For This Report
  • Related Research
 
GRAPEVINE
  • Data migration vendors head for real time.
  • NEON finds a more suitable partner in Forti.
  • MessageQ.com builds an integration information site.
  • Interest in integration is high, but awareness of vendors is low.
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