Integration has, for many years, been high on the agenda of IT professionals. According to the European IT research and advisory organization Butler Group it is also a resource glutton, which, if left uncontrolled, will eventually consume organizations to the point where they can no longer operate effectively.
To make matters worse, "Integration Technologies" a new report published by Butler, finds that the very models being promoted to ensure less complexity, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise service bus (ESB) and the bringing of host systems into modern operating paradigms, are creating complexities and confusion of their own.
