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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
MAJOR SHIFT TO AFFECT ALL ASPECTS
OF ENTERPRISE IT
As companies move toward Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), a broad
range
of individual IT markets will coalesce into a single market for "SOA
implementation frameworks" that provide all the capabilities companies need to
build, run, manage and secure SOAs, concludes a report authored by ZapThink,
LLC, an analyst firm focused on XML, Web Services and Service-Oriented
Architectures. This consolidation trend is already impacting several markets
today, including the application server platform, system management,
integration, business process management and business intelligence
markets.
"Today's IT executives want the efficiency of working with a small number
of
vendors for SOA solutions, while at the same time they require the flexibility
of being able to select best-of-breed solutions," said Jason Bloomberg, senior
analyst with ZapThink. "Emerging SOA implementation frameworks will offer
companies the best of both worlds."
ZapThink's "Service-Orientation Market Trends" report analyzes the
Service-Oriented Security, Management, Application Integration, Information
Integration and Process markets, as well as the XML Appliance market. The
report identifies the windows of opportunities for new entrants and
incumbents, and predicts the market size and growth for vendors in each of
these emerging markets.
Other key findings of the report include:
- The windows of opportunity for startups and other new entrants into
each
of
these Service Orientation markets will peak in the 2005-2007
timeframe.
- The market for SOA implementation frameworks will completely subsume
the
application server platform market by 2010.
- Established, incumbent vendors in the Web Services and Service
Orientation
markets will rapidly come to dominate their markets as the Service Orientation
markets consolidate.
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