The characteristics of the Intermediate maturity level are explained as follows:
- Organizations develop SOA-based applications with a strong focus on service-based developments. For optimization purposes, they may still use proprietary protocols at application level.
- These organizations use polyglot persistence as a first class citizen. These organizations will have the culture of choosing the right databases for the right purpose without much worry about the economies of the scale.
- The infrastructure will be primarily based on cloud--either public or private.
- Organizations use both infrastructure monitoring as well as APM tools for end-to-end application monitoring.
- These organizations use agile development methods ...