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Survivor's Guide to 2006: Enterprise Apps and App Infrastructure: Page 2 of 14

The good news--or bad, if you're an isolationist IT shop--is that the enterprise application initiatives you'll be undertaking will be orchestrated by the business, so you'll be working even more closely with your line-of-business counterparts to implement application services. And your organization's application infrastructure must consider business needs more seriously than ever before and be able to adjust rapidly to ever-fluctuating market conditions.

Regardless of the application technology, process and business will reign supreme. The enterprise application technologies you'll be investigating will support the former and be driven by the needs of the latter.

Enterprise Applications

The need for applications to control business processes can be found at every layer of the application infrastructure stack. Enterprises are integrating call centers with order-management applications and manufacturing systems and tying them together with BPM (business process management).