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"Application integration platforms enable independently designed applications, apps and services to work together.

Key capabilities of application integration technologies include:
• Communication functionality that reliably moves messages/data among endpoints.
• Support for fundamental web and web services standards.
• Functionality that dynamically binds consumer and provider endpoints.
• Message validation, mapping, transformation and enrichment.
• Orchestration.
• Support for multiple interaction patterns, content-based routing and typed messages.

Application Integration Platforms

webMethods Integration Platform

webMethods.io Integration

Application platforms provide runtime environments for application logic. They manage the life cycle of an application or application component, and ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, security and monitoring of application logic. They typically support distributed application deployments across multiple nodes. Some also support cloud-style operations (elasticity, multitenancy and self-service).

Application Platforms

Backend

B2B gateway software is integration middleware that supports information exchange between your organization and its ecosystem trading partners, applications and endpoints. BGS consolidates and centralizes data and process integration and interoperability between a company's internal applications and external endpoints, such as business partners, SaaS or ecosystems. The BGS market is a composite market that includes pure-play BGS solutions and BGS that is embedded or combined with other IT solutions (for example, ESB suites that support BGS features as services connected to the ESB suite, integration brokerage services, e-invoicing software and networks, application platform suites, electronic data interchange [EDI] translators, and managed file transfer [MFT] technology).

B2B Gateway Software

webMethods Trading Networks

Gartner defines business processes as the coordination of the behavior of people, systems and things to produce specific business outcomes. "Things" in this context refers to devices that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT). A BPM platform minimally includes: a graphical business process and/or rule modeling capability, a process registry/repository to handle the modeling metadata, a process execution engine and a state management engine or rule engine (or both). The three types of BPM platforms — basic BPM platforms, business process management suites (BPMSs), and intelligent business process management suites (iBPMSs) — can help solution architects and business outcome owners accelerate application development, transform business processes, and digitalize business processes to exploit business moments by providing capabilities that manage different aspects of the business process life cycle.

Business Process Management Platforms

webMethods BPMS

webMethods AgileApps Cloud

Enterprise architecture (EA) tools are software applications designed to support enterprise architects and other business and IT stakeholders with strategically driven planning, analysis, design and execution. EA tools support strategic and tactical decision making by capturing and connecting context and information across business, information, solution and technology domains, along with other relevant architectural viewpoints. The EA tool market consists of a diverse range of vendors. These vendors offer software tools that enable EA to deliver a strategic planning discipline that drives targeted business outcomes. EA tools store, structure, analyze and present information related to EA. This information aides in the investment, development and delivery of IT solutions that enable business success. EA tools also focus on diagnostic, actionable, operational and enabling deliverables that support projects targeting business. EA tools help with planning and executing business strategy.

Enterprise Architecture Tools

Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management

Enterprise business process analysis (EBPA) is the discipline of business and process modeling aimed at transforming and improving business performance with an emphasis on cross-viewpoint, cross-function analysis, and strategic and operational decision support. EBPA tools are of interest to business architects, enterprise architects, process architects, process analysts and process owners looking to understand and improve their process-related outcomes. Unlike more-traditional BPA tools, EBPA tools support the professional modeling community (process architects and process analysts) and the rank-and-file workforce, as part of the move toward democratization of process improvement, and knowledge discovery and dissemination. Furthermore, it extends its reach toward supporting the business in trying to crack the “strategy to execution” dilemma. EBPA is the practical implementation of “BPA for the masses” and “BPA for the business.”

Enterprise Business Process Analysis

ARIS

An integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution provides capabilities to enable subscribers (aka "tenants") to implement data, application, API and process integration projects involving any combination of cloud-resident and on-premises endpoints. This is achieved by developing, deploying, executing, managing and monitoring integration processes/flows that connect multiple endpoints so that they can work together. An iPaaS solution is typically used for cloud service integration (CSI), application-to-application integration (A2A), business-to-business integration (B2B) scenarios and, increasingly, for mobile application integration (MAI) and IoT integration scenarios. Gartner considers an iPaaS solution to be enterprise iPaaS (EiPaaS) if it: Is designed to support enterprise-class integration projects; that is, projects requiring, high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR), security, service-level agreements (SLAs) and technical support from the provider.

Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service

An Enterprise Low-code application platform (LCAP) provides rapid application development and deployment using low-code and no-code techniques such as declarative, model-driven application design and development together with the simplified one-button deployment of applications. An LCAP typically creates metadata and interprets that metadata at runtime and abstracts the underlying server infrastructure for ease of use; many also allow optional procedural programming extensions. 
LCAP supports: 
• UI capabilities via responsive web and mobile apps 
• Orchestration or choreography of pages, business process, and decisions or business rules 
• Built-in database 
• "One button" deployment of applications

Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms

webMethods AgileApps

Event stream processing (ESP) platforms are software systems that perform real-time or near-real-time calculations on event data "in motion." The input is one or more event streams containing data about customer orders, insurance claims, bank deposits/withdrawals, tweets, Facebook postings, emails, financial or other markets, or sensor data from physical assets such as vehicles, mobile devices or machines. The platforms process the input data as it arrives (hence "in motion"), before optionally storing it in some persistent store. They retain a relatively small working set of stream data in memory, just long enough to perform calculations on a set of recent data for the duration of a time window.

Event Stream Processing

Apama Streaming Analytics

Full life cycle application programming interface (API) management is about the planning, design, implementation, testing, publication, operation, consumption, maintenance, versioning and retirement of APIs. It involves use of a developers' portal to target, market to and govern communities of developers who embed the APIs, as well as runtime management, estimation of API value and analytics. It is impossible to provide the platform for any digital strategy, build ecosystems and run an effective API program, without full life cycle API management.

Full Life Cycle API Management

Software AG CentraSite

Software AG webMethods API Portal

Software AG webMethods API Gateway

IMDGs provide a lightweight, distributed, scale-out in-memory object store — the data grid. Multiple applications can concurrently perform transactional and/or analytical operations in the low-latency data grid, thus minimizing access to high-latency, hard-disk-drive-based or solid-state-drive-based data storage. IMDGs maintain data grid durability across physical or virtual servers via replication, partitioning and on-disk persistence. Objects in the data grid are uniquely identified through a primary key, but can also be retrieved via other attributes. The most typical use of IMDGs is for web-scale transaction processing applications. However, adoption for analytics, often in combination with Apache Spark and Hadoop or stream analytics platforms, is growing fast — for example, for fraud detection, risk management, operation monitoring, dynamic pricing and real-time recommendation management.

In-Memory Data Grids

Terracotta BigMemory

Gartner defines the market for industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platforms as a set of integrated software capabilities. These capabilities span efforts to improve asset management decision making, as well as operational visibility and control for plants, depots, infrastructure and equipment within asset-intensive industries. These efforts also occur within related operating environments of those industries. The IIoT platform may be consumed as a technology suite or as an open and general-purpose application platform, or both in combination. The platform is engineered to support the requirements of safety, security and mission criticality associated with industrial assets and their operating environments. The IIoT platform software that resides on devices — such as, controllers, routers, access points, gateways and edge computing systems — is considered part of a distributed IIoT platform.

Industrial IoT Platforms

TrendMiner

Software AG Cumulocity IoT

The integrated IT portfolio analysis (IIPA) market provides technology solutions that can present the interrelated perspectives, views and considerations needed to make strategic decisions, as more enterprises shift from initiating to scaling digital business. IIPA vendors offer versatile and dynamic portfolio analysis and management, enabling users to create, connect and share portfolios.
IIPA products can associate defined business objectives and expected business outcomes with a variety of contextual IT portfolios. IT investments, IT projects and programs, IT services, IT assets and applications, and digital products can all be aligned with digital business objectives and outcomes to present a holistic view of how the overall “IT portfolio” will enable scaled digital endeavors. Additionally, IIPA products can also support the accelerating shift from IT project thinking to IT product thinking and management, as well as track DevOps programs.

Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Applications

Alfabet IT Portfolio Management

The intelligent business process management suite (iBPMS) market is the natural evolution of the earlier BPMS market, adding more capabilities for greater intelligence within business processes. Capabilities such as validation (process simulation, including "what if") and verification (logical compliance), optimization, and the ability to gain insight into process performance have been included in many BPMS offerings for several years. iBPMSs have added enhanced support for human collaboration such as integration with social media, mobile-enabled process tasks, streaming analytics and real-time decision management.

Intelligent Business Process Management Suites

Software AG Digital Business Platform (Legacy)

Integration means making independently designed applications and data work well together. IoT integration means making the mix of new IoT devices, IoT data, IoT platforms and IoT applications — combined with IT assets (business applications, legacy data, mobile, and SaaS) — work well together in the context of implementing end-to-end IoT business solutions. The IoT integration market is defined as the set of IoT integration capabilities that IoT project implementers need to successfully integrate end-to-end IoT business solutions.

IoT Integration

Cumulocity IoT

Master Data Management (MDM) solutions are enterprise software products that:
•	Support the global identification, linking and synchronization of master data across heterogeneous data sources through semantic reconciliation of master data.
•	Create and manage a central, persisted system of record or index of record for master data.
•	Support the four MDM hub implementation styles, as defined by Gartner.
•	Enable generation and delivery of a trusted version of one or more subject areas to all stakeholders, in support of various business initiatives.
•	Support ongoing master data stewardship and governance requirements through workflow-based monitoring and corrective-action techniques.
•	Are agnostic to the business application landscape in which they reside
•	Can be implemented by end-user organizations without having to make use of required professional.

Master Data Management Solutions

webMethods OneData

Process mining aims to discover, monitor and improve real processes (i.e., not assumed processes) by extracting knowledge from event logs readily available in today's information systems. Process mining includes (automated) process discovery (i.e., extracting process models from an event log), conformance checking (i.e., monitoring deviations by comparing model and log), social network/organizational mining, automated construction of simulation models, model extension, model repair, case prediction and history-based recommendations.

Process Mining

ARIS Process Mining 10

Gartner defines the Strategic Portfolio Management market as a set of business capabilities, processes and supporting portfolio management technology. Business leaders, enterprise portfolio management office (EPMO) leaders, and IT leaders require SPM to support enterprise-wide strategy-to-execution alignment and adaptation. 

The emerging SPM market addresses the integrated portfolio management technology needs of business leaders, EPMO leaders, and IT leaders. SPM technology supports clear definition of key business strategies and desired business outcomes, and formulation and mapping of these with key portfolio elements, such as business capabilities, investments, programs, digital and physical products, applications, and projects.

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