Jim Ericson, Line56 writes that companies are shifting their IT spending priorities.
"...saving money requires spending money, the next top choice appears to be business application integration for the purpose of aligning processes and workflows within companies in efficiency drives that hopefully can pay for themselves.
Against the mired backdrop of flattish budgets, integration spending outstrips overall IT spending growth in almost every survey. Aberdeen's 2003 forecast finds application developer tools and enterprise application integration (EAI) spending sandwiched above and below security as top infrastructure priorities for this year. "
Later in the article he says: "Companies have been warming to looser and more selective integration using the Web or other protocols to unify existing applications and also deliver functionality to the personalized desktops of partners and employees. That's where the infrastructure and application vendors have mainly built their footprint and where price pressure has hit the EAI vendors. Further, the idea of assembling relevant bits of applications used in a business process into composite applications has found growing appeal. While such connections might go sight unseen, in enterprise portals this becomes the human-facing side of integration, something every company would like to see more event driven."
This article gives a great deal of insight into how companies are setting their investment agendas.
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