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Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2004
23 June 2004
 
David W. McCoy   Yefim V. Natis   Massimo Pezzini   Jim Sinur   W Schulte   Jess Thompson   Benoit J. Lheureux   L. Frank Kenney   Cameron Haight   Ted Friedman   Bill Gassman   Gene Phifer   Greta A. James   Mike Blechar   Dale Vecchio  

There's still a lot of hype about software infrastructure, even though many products are nearing maturity. But some advances that have not been widely hyped, such as complex business events, may have the biggest impact.







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Table of Contents


1.0
    
 Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2004

2.0
    
 On the Rise

2.1
    
 Agent-Based Integration
2.2
    
 Business Process Networks
2.3
    
 Distributed Shared Memory Platforms
2.4
    
 Integration Metadata Management
2.5
    
 Integration Registries
2.6
    
 Vocabulary-Based Transformation
2.7
    
 B2B Gateways
2.8
    
 Complex Business Events
2.9
    
 Web Services Application Management
2.10
    
 Web Services Controllers
2.11
    
 Enterprise Information Integration
2.12
    
 Mobile Middleware
2.13
    
 XML Data Integration Servers
2.14
    
 Business Process Execution Language
2.15
    
 Business Activity Monitoring
2.16
    
 Metadata Management
2.17
    
 Enterprise Service Bus

3.0
    
 At the Peak

3.1
    
 BPM Suites
3.2
    
 Enterprise Architecture Tools
3.3
    
 Open Source J2EE
3.4
    
 Advanced Web Services
3.5
    
 Service-Oriented Architecture

4.0
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

4.1
    
 Application Platform Suites
4.2
    
 Business Process Management
4.3
    
 Integration Suites
4.4
    
 Microsoft .NET Application Platform

5.0
    
 Climbing the Slope

5.1
    
 Basic Web Services
5.2
    
 Integration Service Providers
5.3
    
 Portal Products
5.4
    
 Business Rule Engines
5.5
    
 J2EE Connector Architecture
5.6
    
 Presentation Integration Servers
5.7
    
 Business Process Analysis
5.8
    
 Programmatic Integration Servers
5.9
    
 Composite Applications

6.0
    
 Entering the Plateau

6.1
    
 J2EE
6.2
    
 Message-Oriented Middleware

7.0
    
 Conclusions

Appendix A.
    
 Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2003

Appendix B.
    
 Hype Cycle Phase Definitions

Appendix C.
    
 Benefit Rating and Maturity Level Definitions

Appendix D.
    
 Acronym Key


List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2004
 

Figure 2. 
 Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2003
 

Figure 3. 
 Benefit Ratings
 

Figure 4. 
 Maturity Levels
 



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