Insights: Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) (I-2)

Accenture (one of the Big 5) captured the top spot on the systems integration market according to IDC in 2008 at $6.69 billion and shown below from Gartner. According to Forrester (2004 SOA Integration Wave), Accenture was able to accomplished this dominance with a $450 million investment strategy.

My tour of duty at Accenture is between 2004-2006 ending in a newly formed "The Integration Group" globally aligned Innovation and Architecture/Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and during those times I saw, engaged, executed, and finally contributed to assets and competencies development which I believe is part of the $450 million investment. Shown below is the market size for the Application Infrastructure and Middleware (AIM).

 In my personal and professional opinion, the new paradigm for integration called "Integration-as-a-Service" will finally fuse technology and business scenarios - beyond the present business processes inherent to any enterprise where majority of integration projects is being played out from execution level. Given that playing field, a lot of consulting firms with little and sometimes no integration practice will scramble to put together a practice but without the success formula that the Big 5 firms like Accenture learned, it will have a minimal chance of making a significant financial results.

 Here's the link on the article called "Trends That Will Influence The Integration Market In 2011" -

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/trends-that-will-influence-the-integration-market-in-2011/?cs=45071

 The success formula I have witnessed and participated has not been successfully duplicated at the non-big 5 consulting firms where I have also experienced due to several significant reasons I will not mention. However, I think with similar approach an independent service company specializing in the integration services can supplement already established consulting companies willing to tap into this growing market by providing competencies and by utilizing the consulting company's resources as a partner/client.

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