The Changing Face of Application Development

Application integration has become a crucial challenge, both for developers designing the apps, and businesses acquiring them, says analyst firm Gartner. In fact, 75 percent of all new applications being developed today use some kind of integration technology.

“In the past, we didn’t have to make them work together because we had people doing the integration,” says Roy Schulte, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. “Now we’ve got applications talking to applications all over the place. And so it’s something everybody has to do all the time.”

Schulte calls event processing “the secret sauce of situational awareness,” and he says that it will be one of the most discussed trends over the next 5 years…

Read the complete article by John K. Waters in Application Development Trends