ESB adopters look beyond integration -
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Published on: 7/16/2003
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"If you don't want to take a big-bang approach , and most organizations don't , you can put in an ESB and extend your current EAI set-up with adapters," says Mark Dunleavy, SpiritSoft's VP of business development for EMEA.
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"It has put together a framework where it can drop applications in easily," says Dunleavy.Having spent three months developing the framework and the first adapter, the Dutch bank has found it can roll out subsequent adapters in as little as three days.After having a team of 15 people initially, it now has just two supporting the entire infrastructure."Once you've done it, 80 per cent of the code can be reused," says Dunleavy.