Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: April 2006
Product Code: R313-15498Description Introduction
With the move towards SOAs and ESBs the market for integration and BPM is changing. A recent survey of over 90 end-users conducted by Datamonitor's Butler Group reflects these changes.
Scope
- Describes the importance enterprises attribute to ESBs and SOAs for their integration strategy and reveals their plans to invest in these solutions.
- Outlines the timescales enterprises have for implementing BPM and places developments and trends for BPM and SOA in context.
- Looks at IT budget plans and the extent to which IT spending goals match the propositions of BPM, ESB and SOA.
- Analyzes the impact emerging technologies are having on the competitive landscape in the BPM and integration space.
Highlights
The enterprises surveyed feel that it is highly important that their current IT systems enable and support their business processes. This suggests that the vast majority of enterprises consider it a priority to be 'business-led' in their technology investment, as opposed to technology requirements being the primary influencer.
Vendor selection decisions will clearly shift towards lower-risk choices of suppliers, benefiting the titans such as IBM or Microsoft with their broad one-stop-shop portfolios and deeper financial pockets. Datamonitor predicts that in fewer than two years time there may well be a handful of leading players left in the market.
The enterprises surveyed feel that it is highly important that their current IT systems enable and support their business processes. This suggests that the vast majority of enterprises consider it a priority to be 'business-led' in their technology investment, as opposed to technology requirements being the primary influencer.
Reasons to Purchase
- Through valuable end user data, learn about enterprises' strategy regarding new integration technologies and approaches.
- Improve your go-to-market approach through a better understanding of enterprises' forthcoming integration investment plans.
- Gain insight into how new integration technologies are impacting the competitive landscape.
Table of Contents - DATAMONITOR VIEW
- CATALYST
- SUMMARY
- METHODOLOGY
- ANALYSIS
- ESBs and SOAs are changing the face of integration
- Enterprises regard ESBs as important to their integration strategy
- Large-scale move of enterprises towards SOA adoption
- Open standards for SOAs are important however the traction of SOA may outweigh concerns
- BPM is likely to become mainstream
- BPM supports elementary business goals
- The move towards BPM solutions continues
- The BPM market is still fragmented but will consolidate
- Enterprises see SOA and BPM as complementary technologies
- BPM is becoming increasingly tied to SOA
- BPM and infrastructure solutions remain a focus for IT spend
- Enterprises are not compromising on their IT budgets
- IT spending goals are in line with BPM propositions
- Consolidation in the market for BPM and integration solutions is likely to continue
- APPENDIX
- Definitions
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- Service orientated Architecture (SOA)
- Business process Management (BPM)
- Further reading
- Ask the analyst
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Plans to move towards a SOA by total and proportion of surveyed enterprises
- Table 2: Opinions about SOA standards by total and proportion of surveyed enterprises
- Table 3: Expected benefits from implementing BPM by proportion of surveyed enterprises
- Table 4: Plans to move towards BPM by total and % of surveyed enterprises
- Table 5: Perceived leaders in BPM solutions by total and proportion of mentions
- Table 6: Estimated changes to IT budgets by proportion of surveyed enterprises
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Enterprises regard ESBs as important to their integration strategy
- Figure 2: Improving business processes is seen as the primary benefit of implementing BPM
- Figure 3: There is a diversity of opinion about who is the leading BPM vendor
- Figure 4: Timescales for implementing SOA and BPM are largely coinciding
- Figure 5: IT budgets are remaining relatively stable
- Figure 6: Improving business processes by aligning IT to business goals is a high priority
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