Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2009

ID Number: G00168300

16 July 2009

Daniel Sholler Massimo Pezzini Yefim V. Natis William Clark Benoit J. Lheureux L. Frank Kenney Anne Lapkin Jeffrey Mann Andrew White John Radcliffe W Schulte Jess Thompson Mike Blechar Anthony Bradley David Mitchell Smith Mark A. Beyer David Norton Nikos Drakos Paolo Malinverno Ray Valdes Eric Knipp Nicholas Gall Gene Phifer Bill Gassman David Gootzit

Understanding the evolution of application architectural styles and design practices is critical to the successful delivery of new and emerging approaches to applications such as service orientation, cloud computing, event-driven systems and social software solutions.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

What You Need to Know

The Hype Cycle

The Priority Matrix

Off The Hype Cycle

On the Rise

		"MDM Aware" Applications
		Context Delivery Architecture
		Context-Enriched Services
		SOA Backplane
		Activity-Specific Social Applications
		Extreme Transaction Processing
		Federated SOA
		Complex-Event Processing
		Entity Resolution and Analysis

At the Peak

		Enterprise Mashups
		Metadata Repositories
		SOA Centers of Excellence
		RIA Rich Client
		Web-Oriented Architecture
		Application Integration and Infrastructure Appliances
		Managed File Transfer
		Cloud Computing
		Master Data Management
		Model-Driven Architectures
		Social Software Suites
		Unified Communications and Collaboration

Sliding Into the Trough

		Composite Applications
		Open-Source Enterprise Service Bus
		Representational State Transfer
		B2B Web Services
		Service-Oriented Business Applications
		Advanced Web Services
		Business Activity Monitoring

Climbing the Slope

		Event-Driven Architecture
		SOA
		Business Process Analysis

Entering the Plateau

Basic Web Services

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 Architecture, 2009

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Application Architecture, 2009

	Figure 3.	Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2008

Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2009
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Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2008
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