Gartner AADI 2011: Cloud, mobile, CEP are shaping trends for application development and integration

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Application development is about to undergo a number of major shifts, according to Jeff Schulman, managing vice president, Gartner. Driving those shifts are cloud computing and mobile application development, but in-memory computing, event processing and other relatively new technology will also be part of the mix, Schulman forecasted in an introductory keynote at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2011 in Las Vegas, Nev.

He said a recent Gartner-Forbes survey showed boards of directors placing more emphasis on IT. In 2010, 31% of surveyed directors saw IT’s strategic importance as high to extremely high, but that level of importance jumps to 65% for 2012.

Besides cloud and mobile application development, Schulman pointed to in-memory computing technology and event processing as areas soon to surge in use. He predicted that, by 2015, more than half of new business applications would leverage event streams.

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“Most people do not understand the value of CEP,” said Dressler, vice president of technology, Cablevision. “But it is important to learn to take advantage of the large number of events that can be used to improve the customer experience.”

He said he saw an opportunity for complex event processing to go beyond its chief application spot today – in fraud detection – to broader use, such as maintaining video quality. CEP can be used to find and correct issues before the end user has the need to make a complaining call, he suggested.

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Speaking at a summit session on the impact of event processing on application architecture, Kim Kazmaier, technical fellow, Bank of America, said recent message queuing  software packages tend to include much more in the way of publish-subscribe capabilities that more easily enable CEP.  Report