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The world of application integration continues to evolve, with data integration, middleware, service oriented architecture (SOA), and business process management (BPM) converging in current-generation tools. Evaluate your application integrations to decide whether to use data integration, message-oriented middleware, or a hybrid approach. Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs:
- Service quality: combined services reflect best practices from across the organization.
- Agility: re-combine services at will to produce new user-facing services.
- Cost: break down silos and combine redundant services across the organization to reduce the size of IT.
While not always receiving explicit mention, SOA will continue to play a prominent role in emerging technologies such as mobile services and application mash-ups.
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