Gosh is that the time!
It has taken me a while to get back to blogging. Some really good reasons for by blogging holiday. I finally finished the book AGILIZATION which managed to get listed in Amazon and WHSmiths websites even before the ink had dried. At NDMC we've had a really busy time launching our new website at www.ndmc.uk.com that we're really happy with - and we've launched IT Directions too, which is a breakfast club for IT leaders across Europe that helps IT manufacturers and suppliers to get a better understanding of the European IT market - particularly at SME level.
And with all of this going on we've been putting the finishing touches to the 2007 edition of encanvas. And we are SO excited about the new multi-sourcing capabilities and the new-look interface.
When we first trialled encanvas in 2005, few IT people had heard the term composite application framework. Even fewer had come across mash-ups! But suddenly, with media interested fanned by the huge investments of IT industry titans, encanvas and products like it are rapidly becoming the new black dress of IT.
A Composite Application Framework (CAF) is a computing platform used to design and operate applications composed of information gathered from different sources that form a new process or information flow. They vary in size, completeness and scope of use. Most of the major software titans - SAP, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft - are committed to the development of their own enterprise integration toolkits that now closely resemble Composite Application Frameworks. In addition to this traditional set of enterprise computing software players, there are a number of software heavy-weights such as Cordys, Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and Ingres that also provide enterprise scale platforms.
What makes encanvas particularly different is that it has been designed for repeatable authoring of platform agnostic information flows by non technical users and does not require coding skills. Business analysts are able to author prototype systems that can eventually be deployed as live systems without the need of a coding phase. achieving remarkable results is made simpler by the baked in applications that encanvas provides out-of-the-box such as multiple data-sourcing, filtered context search, reports, business intelligence, GIS, web content management and shortly document management. But for all of its simplicity and ease of use, encanvas delivers corporate ready solutions that have the security, scalability, resilience and administrative controls for enterprise-scale applications.
The market for SOA integration tools is hotting up and is expected to touch over 95% of large organizations by 2011. Analysts anticipate more than $17.1 billion will be invested in the technology over this period. That means most organizations will be selecting a composite application framework of one form or another to fit their needs. Naturally, we expect a high proportion of these will be adopting encanvas!
Well that's me done for now. Time for a holiday. Back in two weeks.
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