Reprinted with permission © 2008 TreeTop Technologies
Unified communications revolves around the growing adoption of IT telephony, which can do wonders to consolidate your data and voice transmissions over a single system and better coordinate them.
Business process modeling brings enterprise architects, senior developers, process architects and process analysts together to jointly define top-level process services.
Metadata management is critical for keeping your data-and databases-clean and consistent so they can be sources of good information to move the business forward. Virtualization isn't new, but the awareness of how broad it is, and the range of things it can accomplish, could change the landscape of IT infrastructure and distribution models for applications.
Mashups and composite applications will, Gartner predicts, become the dominant model for creating enterprise applications within the next couple years.
Computing fabric is a term related to the continuing evolution of server flexibility and customizability. The definition: Memory, processors and I/O cards are treated as components in a pool, so that they can be combined and recombined into particular arrangements to suit the owner's needs instead of the vendor's vision or convenience.
Real World Web, which is the concept that objects will contain local processing and networking abilities and will be able to interact with their surroundings through sensing and networking capabilities, eliminating the boundaries between the web and the real world.
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Footnotes: From "View from the TreeTop" Volume 2 Issue 11 November 2008