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Service Virtualization and Composite Applications
Driving Reusability and ROI in SOA Deployments.
Executive Summary
Over the past ten years, Enterprise IT infrastructures have spiraled in complexity, with the addition of hundreds of packaged applications to pre-existing legacy systems, leading to the creation of difficult-to-access information silos. With business information scattered across enterprise and partner channels, it is increasingly difficult for managers to get timely access to relevant information.
A partial solution to this muddle has been the implementation of EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and related technologies, especially since the mid-90s. Such systems, however, have had only limited success and extending current EAI solutions is proving to be a very expensive proposition that falls short of enterprise performance, reliability, scalability and affordability goals. To further complicate the problem, platform vendors and packaged application vendors alike have over the years added integration technology to their product offerings, with the result that a typical enterprise now has multiple middleware and infrastructure solutions to ‘integrate’ within it’s already crowded I/T portfolio.
