Business Takeaways
- Service-enabling strategies for application integration depend on whether the applications to be integrated are purchased, previously developed in house, or being built from scratch.
- A service oriented architecture (SOA) is as relevant for application integration as it is for application construction.
Technology Takeaways- Sometimes an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is the right approach to provide SOA features.
- Sometimes invasive application modification is the right approach to provide SOA features.
You have purchased applications. You have existing in-house applications. You have applications you are in the process of writing from scratch. Now your CIO wants to know how all these applications are going to start leveraging this "SOA" that's been in all the papers.