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Application Infrastructure The Current Analysis Application Infrastructure module covers technologies that provide the infrastructure necessary to build and run enterprise applications and services. Often grouped under the broader term "middleware," these technologies include runtime environments such as messaging systems and application platforms, and integration technologies that allow applications to exchange information with back-end systems. This infrastructure extends to technologies that touch business users directly such as collaboration, business process management (BPM) and enterprise content management (ECM) suites. ► Full coverage description
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Follow the links below to read free newsletters, highlights, analyst news flashes, telebriefing replays, and samples of recent Current Analysis Competitive Intelligence from the Application Infrastructure module. Professional Developers Conference: Microsoft Preps for Oslo with .NET and Windows Server Previews - 10/27/2008 OpenWorld 2008: Oracle Launches SOA Super-Suite at OpenWorld Conference - 9/22/2008 Cisco Upgrades Its Collaboration Infrastructure with Jabber Acquisition - 9/19/2008 Software AG Picks Up Runtime Governance with Progress OEM Deal - 9/11/2008 Virtual Worlds Not Quite Virtually There for Business Communications and Collaboration - 8/26/2008 Oracle Unveils Plan of Attack for BEA Technology Integration - 7/3/2008 Red Hat Summit 2008: Red Hat Takes to the Cloud and Refocuses Virtualization Efforts - 6/23/2008 TechEd 2008: Microsoft Moves Dynamic IT Initiative Forward - 6/10/2008 Sun JavaOne: Sun Readies JavaFX, Evolves Open Source Portfolio and Business Models - 5/7/2008 IBM IMPACT 2008: IBM Smashes up Web 2.0 Collaboration - 4/8/2008 Microsoft Expands SaaS Footprint with Collaboration Tools - 3/2/2008 JBoss World: Red Hat Ramps Up SOA Portfolio and Practices - 2/15/2008 TIBCO Adopts Use Case Bundles with ActiveMatrix 2.0 - 2/13/2008 HP Reinvests in Systinet with New Governance Software and Services - 1/28/2008 IBM Hits the SMB Market with Hosted and Hardware-based Solutions - 1/21/2008 Oracle Finally Grabs Up BEA - 1/16/2008 COVERAGE DESCRIPTION
The Current Analysis Application Infrastructure module covers technologies that provide the infrastructure necessary to build and run enterprise applications and services. Often grouped under the broader term "middleware," these technologies include runtime environments such as messaging systems and application platforms, and integration technologies that allow applications to exchange information with back-end systems. This infrastructure extends to technologies that touch business users directly such as collaboration, business process management (BPM) and enterprise content management (ECM) suites. The module encompasses the software, service offerings and professional services necessary to integrate disparate systems, create cross-business and cross-technology solutions, deliver rich, collaborative applications and govern and manage those systems. The end result goal is software that is highly agile, optimized and reusable. The module covers four distinct yet often overlapping segments: • Middleware Software and Services: This marketplace is comprised of software offerings that connect disparate applications and systems both within and across corporate boundaries. Originating within the three-tier computing, B2B integration and enterprise application integration (EAI) markets, the concept of middleware has grown to circumscribe a cohesive, server-based but network-oriented fabric that supports application development and system integration use cases through standards-based interfaces, messaging formats and protocols that adhere to service-oriented architecture (SOA) practices. • Governance and Management: This market is concerned with controlling the behavior of IT environments, primarily those built utilizing SOA practices and technologies. Solutions strive to maintain current capabilities while creating opportunities for innovation. With these two mandates as a guidepost, governance and management solutions span a number of key preventative and proactive functions including policy enforcement, application provisioning, service validation, visualization and monitoring, auditing, regulatory compliance, change management, access control and overall metadata/artifact management. • Event, Content and Business Process Management (BPM): This market segment covers process-oriented enterprise software solutions. As such, it covers a broad range of technologies and vendor communities, including BPM, business activity monitoring (BAM), business event management (BEM), event driven architecture (EDA), business rules, human workflow, performance management, business process optimization (BPO), business process automation (BPA) and enterprise content management (ECM). • Collaboration and Productivity: The collaboration and productivity market encompasses software and services geared toward people rather than process, shared knowledge rather than structured data. In this way, offerings discussed here focus on empowering business users and IT professionals across a wide spectrum of job descriptions. Popular application classes in this market segment include desktop- and cloud-based collaboration suites, social networking services, Web 2.0 toolsets, Web conferencing solutions, as well as point solutions such as portals, wikis, blogs and forums. |
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