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The Interaction Platform: Widespread In 2006

The interaction platform began as an architecture pattern enabled by service-oriented architecture (SOA), a common way to factor an application front end from the back-end services it uses, supported by frameworks and infrastructure. During 2005 a number of events moved packaged applications and services, application infrastructure, frameworks, and tools into closer alignment with this pattern. However, only a few major vendors are explicitly positioning products as interaction platforms, with the rest embedding those capabilities in broader application platform suites. Despite this low-key market status, organizations with requirements for rich clients, multichannel business processes, composite applications, collaboration, and other capabilities of interaction platforms should align architecture and purchasing plans with this trend to ensure the best fit of platform and tool strategy to meet these needs.

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