What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors Doing About It?
Part Three: A New Approach and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic & Olin Thompson - June 24, 2003

Introduction

With increased competition, deregulation, globalization, and mergers & acquisition activity, enterprise software buyers realize that product architecture plays a key role in how quickly vendors can implement, maintain, expand/customize, and integrate their products. Many in the enterprise applications vendors' community recognize that these are unmet realities and are attempting to offer solutions that will deal with them. While it is not practical to look at every strategy and every vendor's nuance, this note looks at some important examples representing distinct strategic approaches...