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Technology Map Detailed Contents August 2006
Recent Developments
- Grid Computing Fails to Inspire
- Case Studies Highlight Current Reality of SOA Market
- Software As A Service Business Model Keeps Growing
- SAP and Oracle Compete to Build New Enterprise-Middleware Platforms
Updates
Importance of the Technology
The Technology in Brief
- Service-Oriented Architectures
- XML
- The Web-Services Stack
- Web-Services Platforms
- Enterprise-Service Buses
Commercial Development Parameters
- Timing
- Commercialization of AI and KBS
- Promotion of Artificial Intelligence by the U.S. Department of Defense
- Demand Factors
- General Constraints
- Synergistic Technologies
- Competing Technologies
- Required Resources
- Regulatory Factors
Areas to Monitor
- Corporate-Software Expenditure
- Vendors' R&D Expenditure
- Web 2.0
- Network Infrastructure
- Critical Mass of Services
- Technical-Skills Shortage
- SOA Hype
- Web-Services Standards
- Service-Centric Computing
- Culture of IT Department
- Web-Services Security
Implications of Commercialization
- Improved Enterprise-Application Integration
- Arrival of Third-Party Service Providers
- Extended-Enterprise Integration
- Web-Services-Supported Pervasive Computing
Market Development
- Analysis and Design Tools
Applications
- Internal Enterprise Integration
- Third-Party Service Provision and Brokering
- ASP Integration
- Extended Enterprise Integration
- Pervasive Computing