Tough economic times have made mergers and acquisitions an attractive business option to gain market share, but there are some key issues business and IT must take into account.
Business enterprises have grown in size and markets they serve and their application systems have also become more complex. The need for application programming interfaces between these systems to share the data stored in these heterogeneous systems has escalated. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) provides the means of integrating these disparate applications within the enterprise. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables reuse of services. Emerging EAI tools help build integration as services and maximize reuse and the return on investment (ROI).
Composite Software Construction - The goal of this book is start by understanding today's software construction processes and technologies and explore why and how it should be evolved to support core composition mechanisms.