How the future of the EAI market?

According to 2008 Gartner research, the global revenue for the application infrastructure and middleware software market totaled more than $14 billion in 2007, increasing nearly 13 percent from the previous year. Enterprise service buses and business process management suites contributed to the steadfast growth. As the market changes and grows, enterprises often struggle to keep up with the fast pace of innovation. With new waves of social networking, mashups, and cloud computing, large companies often have to re-evaluate and rethink what it means to be agile and relevant.

The number one challenge in social software is how to get started,  enterprises pose the following question when evaluating business processes: "How can I compete with a clean-slate competitor?, company should look hard at its legacies and question what is an asset to the business and what is a liability. What was formerly viewed as a success, for instance, owning your own data center, may now be seen as a liability.  ord=Math.random()*10000000000000000; document.write(''); document.write('');