Application integration has become a crucial challenge, both for developers designing the apps, and businesses acquiring them, says analyst firm Gartner. In fact, 75 percent of all new applications being developed today use some kind of integration technology.
"In the past, we didn't have to make them work together because we had people doing the integration," says Roy Schulte, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. "Now we've got applications talking to applications all over the place. And so it's something everybody has to do all the time."
Gartner has determined that this demand for app integration is at the heart of five architectural trends that are changing the way business apps are designed and provided. Schulte, who is Gartner's research team leader for app integration and middleware, shared those trends with attendees at the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco on Monday.
