Guide to integration architecture

Stephanie Mann:

“application developers” often act as “integration developers.” The difficulty lies in overcoming silos and marrying new technologies with currently existing approaches. A proliferation of middleware tools adds to the challenge. Although users seek flexibility and ease of integration, a plethora of different middleware approaches can mean higher levels of complexity—not easy, flexible integration. “A more holistic approach to integration architecture starts with what currently exists in most organizations today—where you have silos of integration, expertise and knowledge,” said Forrester’s Ken Vollmer. He recommends forming centers of integration excellence to allow the diverse disciplines of application integration, process integration and data integration to come to together to support agile integrated deployments through planning, strategy and implementation.

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