Integration: The Hidden Achilles Heel
Today's IT organizations run complex shops. The average company has more than 100 software products simultaneously running, each providing one or more services. The computing infrastructure of most companies is a complicated arrangement of software products, each performing its function, but also working cooperatively with others in a network of data feeds, RPCs, and direct application integration. Figure 9.1 depicts a typical software stack for an IT organization. It is easy to see that every piece of the stack has to interoperate with a number of other software products.
Figure 9.1. Typical Software Stack
IT environments require large numbers of software products to work cooperatively.
Therefore, choosing ...
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