Chapter 3. Promise of Frictionless Information
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Frictionless information flows are the inevitable future of information technology.
Models, independent of platforms and data, will drive semantic interoperability.
Component-driven service-oriented architectures (SOA) will provide flexible and dynamic connectivity—once fully enabled by semantic interoperability.
Autonomic computing concepts will drive strategic technology development in a number of industries and software solution spaces.
US intelligence sharing problems are a useful context in which to examine the strengths of flexible, dynamic and loosely coupled semantic interoperability architectures.
In an environment in which business leaders freely discuss the end of IT innovation, it may seem overly optimistic to claim that semantics-aware middleware is the strategic future of technology, much less of business as a whole. However, it is true—the evolution of enterprise middleware is not only the strategic future of information technology, it provides the single greatest potential for businesses to gain strategic differentiation in the foreseeable future.
More common beliefs about what the future may bring include:
A belief that many other technologies, not just middleware, will have strategic impact on the future of technology
A belief that some other individual technology (e.g., wireless, handheld, or enterprise packages) is the strategic future of IT
A belief that no technology can be strategic, because IT is only a tactical ...
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