eAI Journal surveyed its readership [PDF] to gauge the state of the integration market and found integration likely to be a top IT issue in 2003. Web services, the headline technology issue of 2002, looks to repeat that trend in 2003.
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Executives are increasingly turning their analyses inward — and they want business intelligence tools to help them and their employees scrutinize business processes to cut costs and operate more efficiently, according to a recent InformationWeek Research survey of 300 business-technology managers.
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In a recent eAI Journal article [PDF], Steven Horwitz, president and CEO of Q-Link Technologies, an Ascertane partner, discusses the economics of BPM, saying that BPM fills the need for immediate, tangible results and provides IT and business executives evidence they require to assess the impact of business automation.