Service-Oriented Integration
Key Findings:
- Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) simplifies system integration by providing a single, simple architectural framework based on Web Services in which to build, deploy, and manage application functionality.
- The SOI market is expected to grow from $435 million in 2001 to about $6.2 billion in 2006.
- The top three EAI vendors have over 43% of the overall EAI market. With the entrance of Microsoft and other vendors in 2002, this landscape is expected to change.
- Web Services isn’t an integration technology, but a distributed computing technology that lends itself well to being used in integration scenarios.
- In a Web Services context, there really is no difference between EAI, B2Bi, and Data Integration.
- SOI solutions allow users to get a greater level of interaction and granularity with components deep within the application.
- SOI faces challenges in immature specifications, insufficient reliability, security, and transaction control.
- Microsoft and IBM have made strong entries into this space that will be a challenge for other providers of SOI solutions.
- The potential ROI realized by adopting Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) far outweighs the slight benefits an organization gets from using Web Services as simply a “better API” for accessing application functionality.
- Integrating systems between two businesses is not only a technological problem; it requires pre-existing business relationships between the companies.
Table of Contents:
- I. Report Scope
- II. Integration: The Challenges to be Solved
- 2.1 The N-Squared Integration Challenge
- 2.2 Classes of Integration Problem
- 2.3 Traditional EAI and B2Bi Solutions
- 2.4 Why Current EAI and B2Bi Solutions are Not Sufficient
- 2.5 The Integration “Zipper”
- III. Service-Oriented Integration Approaches
- 3.1 Using Web Services for Integration: Service-Oriented Integration (SOI)
- 3.2 Methods for Implementing SOI
- 3.3 SOI-enabled EAI and B2Bi Solutions
- 3.4 Emerging SOI Solutions
- 3.5 Data-focused SOI Solutions
- IV. Drivers for SOI Adoption
- 4.1 Reduce the cost and complexity of managing IT infrastructures
- 4.2 Provide a uniform platform for B2B exchange and marketplaces
- 4.3 Move away from proprietary technologies and solutions
- 4.4 Enable application and data reuse
- 4.5 Simplify business modeling
- 4.6 Provide fine-grained access to data, functionality, and logic
- V. ROI for Service-Oriented Integration
- 5.1 TCO and ROI of Traditional EAI and B2Bi Solutions
- 5.2 Improving the ROI Outlook with SOI
- 5.3 The Movement to the “Agile Enterprise” Offers Greatest ROI
- 5.4 Realize Integration ROI Internally First, Externally with Trusted Parties Second
- VI. Barriers and Challenges to SOI Adoption
- 6.1 Interoperability of SOI implementations
- 6.2 SOI specifications are far from complete
- 6.3 SOI can require the re-architecting of systems
- 6.4 Lack of Semantic Integration
- 6.5 Web Services introduces its own level of complexity and inefficiency
- VII. Market Size and Future Trends
- 7.1 The Convergence of EAI, B2Bi, and Data Integration Markets
- 7.2 Market Opportunity and Sizing
- 7.3 Current Vendor Positioning and Market Share
- 7.4 Future Directions for Service-Oriented Integration
- VIII. Conclusions
- 8.1 Key Notes
- 8.2 Decision Points
- 8.3 Figures
- 8.4 Tables
- IX. Profiled Vendors
- 9.1 SOI-enabled Web Services Platforms
- 9.2 SOI-enabled EAI and B2Bi Solutions
- 9.3 Emerging SOI Solutions
- 9.4 Data-Focused SOI Solutions
- A. Related Research
- Reports
- Briefing Notes
- B. Supporting Resources
- C. Trademark Notice and Statement of Opinion
- About ZapThink, LLC