The Gap Between Potential and Reality
Chris Moyer, CTO, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, EDS Says Things Are Rarely as Simple as They Look
04 Sep 2007
People say that IT integration is getting easier. I don’t buy it. The messages in the marketplace about service-oriented architectures and Extensible Markup Language easing the challenge of integration don’t match what I see every day.
An integrator like EDS takes on projects with many moving parts. When a vendor tells me it has a simple connection model, I get skeptical. Just for starters, I ask if they’ve thought about speed, performance, error handling, and prioritizing activities. Usually they haven’t. We still have to balance the claims we hear about products against what it takes to make things work in the real world and to build solutions to run effectively rather than just to function initially.
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