Service Description

Ideas International's (IDEAS) Application and Integration Infrastructure Research and Advisory Service clarifies the confusion users and developers face in trying to understand how the evolution of component-based platforms, service-oriented architecture, and open-source middleware will affect the future of their businesses. Companies can choose from a range of new integration architectures that allow them to link with customers, suppliers, and business partners. However, these architectures and vendor offerings also pose a new level of risk to users and vendors, making a solid understanding of the technologies, tradeoffs, and strategies involved essential to success. Optimization of the application and integration infrastructure is crucial to successful business process improvement and transformation.

Our Application and Integration Infrastructure research reveals the requirements for successful decisions and deployment and illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of leading vendors' strategies and products. Through objective assessments of current and proposed application and integration solutions (in light of current and emerging customer requirements), our research provides vendors and users with a better understanding of market and user requirements.