Migrating to Enterprise Component Computing: The Transition Concept Phase

by Michael Guttman, Jason Matthews

This report is the second in a series of four installments that examines how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from traditional computing to component computing, a critical transition that most large organizations will make in the coming decade. Companies will undergo this transition to ensure that they can develop the large distributed applications they will need to tie together their worldwide operations and to link their organizations with supply chains and customers. In the process, IT development will be streamlined, and maintenance will become simpler. At the same time, software reuse fostered by component development should significantly reduce the costs of new, strategic application development efforts.