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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 called "middleware," these technologies include not only application runtime environments, but also integration technologies that allow applications to communicate and exchange information with back-end systems. They also include technologies that touch business users directly. The module encompasses the software, services and professional services necessary to integrate disparate systems, create cross-business and cross-technology communications, deliver rich, collaborative applications, and build software that is transparent, optimized and reusable.
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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. Sun Microsystems Pulls Off a Hat Trick with Complete Java EE 6 Solution - 12/10/2009 IBM Further Opens Mashup Center up to Business Users with 2.0 Update - 10/30/2009 Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle Previews Future Middleware Enhancements - 10/16/2009 VMware Turns Middleware Market on Its Ear with SpringSource Acquisition - 8/10/2009 IBM’s Acquisition of Predictive Analytics Vendor SPSS to Improve its BPM Offerings - 7/28/2009 Oracle Scores Big with SOA Suite 11g Release - 7/1/2009 Software AG Unveils the webMethods 8.0 Platform - 6/24/2009 Microsoft Positioned to Disrupt Application Infrastructure Market - 6/19/2009 Red Hat Seeks to Rule Business Users - 5/21/2009 Oracle Ambitiously Reaches for Sun - 4/21/2009 Alcatel-Lucent Poised to Make Splash in SOA Market with New Web Services Gateway - 4/16/2009 Software AG Puts Extra B2B in Its SOA Platform with Proginet OEM Deal - 3/30/2009 TIBCO Transforms Rendezvous Messaging into High Performance Network Appliance - 2/6/2009 Sun Seeds Cloud Business with Q-layer Acquisition - 1/13/2009 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 COVERAGE DESCRIPTION
The Current Analysis Application Infrastructure module covers technologies that provide the infrastructure necessary to build and run enterprise applications and services. Often called "middleware," these technologies include not only application runtime environments, but also integration technologies that allow applications to communicate and exchange information with back-end systems. They also include technologies that touch business users directly. The module encompasses the software, services and professional services necessary to integrate disparate systems, create cross-business and cross-technology communications, deliver rich, collaborative applications, and build software that is transparent, optimized and reusable. The module covers three 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. • 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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