Aberdeen Group & Nexaweb to Host eConference on how SOA Standards and Composite Applications can Accelerate Business Change

April 13, 2007; 12:13 AM

• Best in Class firms realize the inadequacy of their present development tools and

are actively investing in new composite development technology.

• An IT organization that wants to accelerate the delivery of more composite applications must invest in more targeted training or use outside IT services.
• Companies looking to build more composite applications should look first to the

The report goes on to outline the following recommendations for all organizations interested in developing and delivering composite applications:

• Proper planning is a critical first step – While modest composite applications can be built in skunk works projects, serious composites involving legacy applications and databases require careful consideration.
• Start small and grow with experience and confidence – There are considerable integration challenges across multiple projects.

·        Invest in targeted training – Plan training around composite infrastructure layers, such as user interface, message transport, and legacy application wrapping, so specialists can ramp up experience and deliver quick return on value.

·        Bring in professional service partners to assist – One lesson learned from survey respondents: “Climbing the composite application technology mountain without an IT services guide is risky if not foolhardy,” a medical products executive says.

·        Invest in the development tools needed for the long term – The design, software development, testing, quality assurance, and deployment technology and methods that worked with earlier application development methodologies are not optimized for building composite applications.

“Nexaweb’s Starter Kit is an option organization’s who are looking to adopt Ajax and Enterprise Web 2.0 technology, but who want to do so incrementally and inexpensively, should consider,” continued Kastner. “Interest in Ajax and Enterprise Web 2.0 technology among medium and large enterprises has increased dramatically in the last 6 months, and solutions such as Nexaweb’s Starter Kit and Application Workshop offer the right mix of technology, services, and support for organizations who want to jumpstart their Ajax and composite application development projects.”

“Today’s organizations realize that they must embrace Web 2.0 technologies as they modernize and deploy enterprise applications, but many are confused as to how to start the process,” said David McFarlane, COO at Nexaweb. “This confusion is precisely the demand that has led us to create the Nexaweb Starter Kit and Application Workshop solutions. On average, Nexaweb customers are realizing savings of 50% in development time and associated costs.  They are able to re-use upwards of 60% of their existing code and business logic. And they are finding maintenance costs down almost 90% in comparison to traditional development methods.”

Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions enable enterprises to rapidly deploy Richer, Thinner, Faster applications over the Web.  With Nexaweb, building Ajax and Java UI applications that access legacy and service-oriented data systems is simple and doesn’t require re-writing code.  And only Nexaweb’s EW2.0 solution is proven by more than 5,000 successful global deployments.  Founded in February 2000 and rooted in the MIT community, Nexaweb is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. The company is privately held and funded by institutional investors.  For more information, visit www.nexaweb.com or call (781) 345-5500.