For Enterprise Architecture Professionals (Length: 18 pages)

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March 19, 2007

Evaluating Integration Technology Options

Scenario-Based Guidance For Application, Process, And Data Integration

by Ken Vollmer, Rob Karel

with Mike Gilpin, Larry Fulton, Noel Yuhanna, Megan Daniels

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

The wide range of packaged integration alternatives, and resulting significant overlap of features and functions among the various product categories, make it difficult for enterprise architects to select the best alternative to meet their integration needs. Scenario-based guidance on the relative suitability of different solution types among the individual integration products can help enterprise architects engaged in the vendor selection process to more effectively evaluate the various integration alternatives.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemBusiness Demands Are Accelerating The Need For Comprehensive Integration

itemA Multitude Of Options — How Do You Choose?

itemScenario-Based Guidance Simplifies Tool Selection

itemApplication Integration Came First

itemCommon Application Integration Scenarios

itemProcess Integration Needs To Rise To The Surface

itemCommon Process Integration Scenarios

itemData Integration Technologies

itemCommon Data Integration Scenarios

recommendations

itemLeverage Scenarios To Define Optimal Integration Strategy

WHAT IT MEANS

itemContinued Convergence Across Integration Technologies

Forrester interviewed Axway, BEA Systems, Cape Clear Software, EasyLink Services, Fiorano Software, GXS, IBM, Inovis, IONA Technologies, iWay Software, Lombardi Software, Magic Software, Microsoft, Oracle, PolarLake, SAP, Savvion, SEEBURGER, Software AG, Sterling Commerce, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO Software, Vitria Technology, and webMethods.

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Analyst: Ken Vollmer, Rob Karel
Technology: Application Development, Application Infrastructure Technologies, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Data Management, Information & Knowledge Management, Integration Technologies, Packaged Applications
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America
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