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Summary of Reports

 Axway

 DataMirror

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 InterSystems

 Magic Software Enterprises

 Microgen

 Oracle

 Pervasive Software

 Serena Software

 Sunopsis

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Management Briefings

 Market Overview & Analysis | Part 2

 Expert Opinion: Dr Sean Baker of IONA Technologies

 View from the Top: David Llamas, IT director of Harrods | Part 2

 Change Management: Martin Berman of Impact Plus | Part 2

 Service Oriented Enterprise: Capgemini chief technology officer Andy Mulholland | Part 2 | Part 3

 Future Directions: Richard Hall of Avanade | Part 2

 Business Benefits: Yvonne Genovese of Gartner | Part 2

 EAI: Cliff Leach | Part 2

 Open Source: Independent consultant Paul Bellchambers | Part 2

 Integration Links: The UK's Evaluation Centre website

Enterprise Integration, SOA & Web Services

Conspectus October 2006 - Summary

It’s become axiomatic that the main IT problem for companies these days is not that they lack new technology, but that they have too many disparate systems that don’t talk to each other.

For that reason, the role of integration software, despite its technical complexity, is one that is preoccupying many organisations.

Within this area, the emergence of service oriented architecture (SOA) and web services standards has helped to improve the speed with which new, standard applications, and links between applications, can be developed.

So what more needs to be done? The consultant authors in this Conspectus focus on staying on top of the future technology trends and the practical problems in managing integration suppliers and projects. And if experience helps, our case study looks at how Harrods has entered the SOA fray.

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