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surveys reveal that chief information officers are pre-occupied
with the following business priorities: cost pressures, shortage
of skilled resources, single view of customer and customer relationship,
security and privacy concerns, impact of e-business, sustained
innovation, reduced product development cycle and demand for
increased share holder returns. These business priorities in
turn drive the following technology priorities: internal e-business
infrastructure, enhancing security, network management infrastructure,
building inter-enterprise e-business processes, application
integration, implementing customer relationship management,
application scalability and deploying enterprise portals. Each
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| History
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The field of integration has been around for
sometime. In the 70s and early 80’s, “integration”
was limited to communications issues amongst computers. Subsequently
and through the early 90s, the term “system integration”
was coined as complexity in this field increased with the acceptance
of client server applications, but the industry saw no advances
in this field. The advent of e-business saw a quantum leap in
complexity of integration and Middleware/EAI was the industry
attempt to address this critical issue.
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The
Evolution of Integration - This illustration depicts a
big gap that has evolved between complexity and the time
we are given to produce the result (and the gap is widening),
complete with cost pressures. It is questionable whether
existing methods support successful application integration
today? It is imperative that this widening gap be filled.
VCOS is a solution designed to fill this gap. |
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this entire span of almost 20 years there have not been any
changes in our methods and processes in dealing with application
integration, with or without software tools such as middleware/EAI.
The need for these software tools arises about 5 years ago primarily
driven by the increasing complexity of integration which has
multiplied at least 5 fold while the demand for time to market
has reduced by over half, yet we are still executing our projects
and maintaining these very complex applications in exactly the
same manner as we did 20 years ago. Given the parameters above,
it is a wonder how we can successfully create, deploy and manage
this unprecedented level of complexity without any change to
our methods. The fact is we are failing, by old economy measures,
most of the time. We compromise the results to declare success.
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is the next generation of integration technology, after middleware/EAI,
to resolve this great disparity between our methods and the
task on hand. It is an Integration Management solution. |
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