market interest grows in composite application frameworks and mash-ups

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 15, 2007 -- encanvas announces the launch of a new look version of its composite application framework software is launched in September 2007. It comes at a time when the interwoven topics of how best to exploit corporate information assets and service oriented architecture (SOA) are hitting the headlines.

Ian Tomlin, Chief Executive says, "Whilst other composite application framework software tools have emerged since 2005, encanvas retains its position as the definitive corporate-ready application framework through its best-in-class ease-of-use and rich blend of baked-in application building blocks that mean developers can work across the desk with business sponsors to author new applications. Another key feature is the remarkably uncluttered point-and-click integrated development environment (IDE) that receives a major face lift in the new version to fully exploit the canvas tab structure that characterizes encanvas applications".

Multi-sourcing without coding is likely to appeal most to IT departments facing the challenge of exploiting back office information through a Service Oriented Architecture. Multi-sourcing describes a feature embedded into encanvas 2007 employed to create robust data sourcing routines or web services by gathering information from multiple data sources at the same time. Once formed, data management rules are captured in the canvas being authored so that they may be easily repeated. Canvases can be used as templates to enable the same data sourcing rules to be repeatedly applied for different portal applications - all done without coding. encanvas profits from the growing importance placed on integration and the popularity of Service Oriented Architecture. encanvas provides an ideal application authoring environment to build applications on SOA. Where web services exist they can be seamlessly integrated to build flexible, yet strong information flows. Where web services do not exist, encanvas information flow designer provides an intuitive point-and-click environment to build new web services or automated import/export routines.

A Composite Application Framework (CAF) is a computing platform used to design and operate applications composed of information gathered from different sources that form a new process or information flow. The market for SOA integration tools is hotting up and is expected to touch over 95% of large organizations by 2011. Analysts anticipate more than $17.1 billion will be invested in the technology over this period. That means most organizations will be selecting a composite application framework of one form or another to fit their needs.

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