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| Recent 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
of these technology priorities involves
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| History of Integration |
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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
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| Throughout 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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| VCOS 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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