U.S. Integration Systems Market New Business & Core Growth Strategies of Medium-Size Integration Vendors

U.S. Integration Systems Market New Business & Core Growth Strategies of Medium-Size Integration Vendors

Every business, regardless of size, geography or industry, faces a common problem: The business has many different applications, databases and data sets but no good way of connecting them together. A large Wall Street bank can have tens of thousands of databases underneath the applications that are running the trading desk. To connect them all, a company would need millions of interconnections and teams of programmers writing fragments of code. Or the company could centralize matters using a solution analogous to the network industry concept of the router: Instead of having thousands of interconnections among computers, this single device can send the same information across many computers.

This report examines the business strategies and directions of 30 integration vendors from the public and private landscape that apply various unifying technologies so existing and new systems, databases, software/hardware infrastructures and business processes can talk to one another, across applications and, usually, over the Internet. Each vendor's integration solution may have different functions. There are solutions for:

· Integrating different generations of computers and the applications running on them from mainframes to client/server systems and Internet-based system
· Integrating different types of resources internal databases, application servers, packaged and custom applications, and the systems of business trading partners
· Managing the underlying business processes that define interactions between computing resources
· Allowing access to new types of real-time data, such as RFID data, flowing through integrated systems
· Providing integration and interoperability using maturing Web services technologies
· Providing security or management capabilities for legacy systems integrated with Web services
· Integrating systems on the data, application and/or business process levels as a managed network service

Integration is a large, multidimensional marketplace with many competing technologies and services available today. It is a large business challenge. If you are up to the challenge - and want to know how vendors are preparing for what's going to be in demand tomorrow - you're up for this report.

Every business, regardless of size, geography or industry, faces a common problem: The business has many different applications, databases and data sets but no good way of connecting them together. A large Wall Street bank can have tens of thousands of databases underneath the applications that are running the trading desk. To connect them all, a company would need millions of interconnections and teams of programmers writing fragments of code. Or the company could centralize matters using a solution analogous to the network industry concept of the router: Instead of having thousands of interconnections among computers, this single device can send the same information across many computers.

This report examines the business strategies and directions of 30 integration vendors from the public and private landscape that apply various unifying technologies so existing and new systems, databases, software/hardware infrastructures and business processes can talk to one another, across applications and, usually, over the Internet. Each vendor's integration solution may have different functions. There are solutions for:

· Integrating different generations of computers and the applications running on them from mainframes to client/server systems and Internet-based system
· Integrating different types of resources internal databases, application servers, packaged and custom applications, and the systems of business trading partners
· Managing the underlying business processes that define interactions between computing resources
· Allowing access to new types of real-time data, such as RFID data, flowing through integrated systems
· Providing integration and interoperability using maturing Web services technologies
· Providing security or management capabilities for legacy systems integrated with Web services
· Integrating systems on the data, application and/or business process levels as a managed network service

Integration is a large, multidimensional marketplace with many competing technologies and services available today. It is a large business challenge. If you are up to the challenge - and want to know how vendors are preparing for what's going to be in demand tomorrow - you're up for this report.