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Finding 4. Sea change in application integration: New integration technologies are starting to displace older enterprise applications.
Data integration remains a big barrier to business process improvement, and that is helping to spur the adoption of SOA, Web services and other integration technologies. These technologies should also make it easier to integrate individual applications, and apparently they are: Companies that have adopted them are now beginning to jettison their older CRM, ERP and supply-chain management applications. The bottom line: The old debate between best-of-breed and integrated packages is being rekindled.
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