Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2009

ID Number: G00168593

21 July 2009

Jess Thompson Massimo Pezzini Yefim V. Natis Daniel Sholler Benoit J. Lheureux L. Frank Kenney Daryl C. Plummer Paolo Malinverno Mark A. Beyer Eric Knipp David McClure Mike Blechar Mark Driver W Schulte William Clark Michael J. King Bill Gassman

Application infrastructure is undergoing a continuing evolution that affects business analysts, architects, application developers, middleware technologists and users. It is foundational not only for modern applications, but also for business process management and cloud-computing initiatives.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

What You Need to Know

The Hype Cycle

		The Economic Environment
		ENS Vision

The Priority Matrix

Off The Hype Cycle

On the Rise

		Cloud Services Governance
		AMQP
		Cloud Computing/SaaS Integration
		SOA Backplane
		Extreme Transaction Processing Platforms
		Data/Information Services
		E-Invoicing
		SaaS/Cloud-Enabled Application Platforms
		Application Platform as a Service
		Business Service Repository
		Federated SOA
		Open-Source Technology for Extreme Transaction Processing
		Complex-Event Processing
		OSGi for Application Infrastructure Middleware
		Service Component Architecture

At the Peak

		Distributed Caching Platforms
		Metadata Repositories
		SOA Centers of Excellence
		Packaged Integration
		Application Integration and Infrastructure Appliances
		Managed File Transfer
		SOA Governance Technologies

Sliding Into the Trough

		Composite Applications
		Open-Source Enterprise Service Bus
		B2B Gateway Software
		B2B Web Services
		Business Activity Monitoring

Climbing the Slope

		Spring
		Integration as a Service
		SOA
		SOA: Government
		Microsoft .NET Application Server
		Open-Source Java EE Application Servers
		ESB Suites

Entering the Plateau

		Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms
		Integration Competency Centers
		Java Platform, Enterprise Edition

Appendixes

Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Hype Cycle Phases

	Table 2.	Benefit Ratings

	Table 3.	Maturity Levels

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2009

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Application Infrastructure, 2009

	Figure 3.	Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2008

Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2009
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Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2008
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Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure Middleware, Platforms and Architecture, 2007
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