Issue 6-5

The goal of many businesses is simple: Have the business and IT departments work together to drive growth and innovation, at an affordable cost. Applications play a critical role, and modernizing them is the key to achieving long-term sustainable results.

At a high level, application integration means leveraging technical infrastructure to make diverse applications communicate with each other to achieve a business objective. The integration needs to be seamless and reliable, regardless of platform and geographical location of these applications.

I have had some recent discussions about a tool that I produced which is meant to allow projects to be assessed based on their architectural reuse of a set of core building blocks (BB).