December 22, 2004

Integration Landscape 2005

Service-Oriented Platforms Move To Dominate

This is the third document in the "Integration Landscape" series.

by John R. Rymer, Mike Gilpin, Ken Vollmer

with Philip Russom, Liz Barnett, Kimberly Q. Dowling, Randy Heffner, Henry Peyret

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

In response to new requirements, the integration market landscape is shifting. Service-oriented architectures, business process management (BPM), composite applications, and other new application requirements have become the driving force in the market. To meet these requirements, enterprise integration solutions are evolving into more flexible and service-oriented platforms that extend the breadth of platform capability. New ideas such as the enterprise service bus, the interaction platform, the data hub, and the business services hub will be implementations of these strategic integration platforms. The ultimate goal of an integration strategy should still be to rationalize integration infrastructure to the smallest number of broad platforms that meet business requirements. As we predicted in 2003, the optimum outcome of such convergence will still be two platforms: One that supports integration of business processes, user interactions, and applications, and another for data integration and delivery, although a small number of vendors will supply both.

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