IBM has provided more details of eight industry-specific roadmaps that it announced at its SOA user conference in May, along with the results of a customer survey that it took at the same time.
Rather than upcoming products from IBM, the eight roadmaps detail an implementation framework for six specific industries: one each for banking, insurance, retail and manufacturing, and two each for telecommunications and healthcare, which IBM says are its biggest customers. In most cases, the underlying mix of IBM application platform and SOA middleware products is not significantly different between the roadmaps, though IBM and some of its ISVs have developed industry-specific components that run on top of the platform.
