Forrester Research founder George Colony coined the term X-Internet (for eXecutable Internet) to describe the emerging technologies that extend today's static Web pages with intelligent, network-based, client-executable software.

Within the broad domain of the X-Internet are Integrated Internet Applications (IIAs), which are the immediate fulfillment of the X-Internet’s promise of distributed applications that execute code near the user delivering richer, more, engaging, and productive user experiences. Thus, IIAs are the actionable part of the X-Internet.

 

Integrated Internet Application (IIA) Practice

Web Service Oriented Architectures are changing how enterprises organize not just their computing resources but their businesses. Until recently, however, these changes have focused on improving the infrastructure, especially with Web Services and Internet Middleware.

These improvements alone, although very valuable, do not allow the enterprise to tap the full potential of its people and those of its partners and customers. IIAs unlock this potential!

The idea of an  IIA is deceptively simple: keep the dynamic, on-demand, low client impact of Web applications, but deliver fully functional, fully network-enabled applications instead of passive Web pages.

IIAs  empower the user, providing the power of client-server systems with the ease of deployment and pervasiveness of Web systems.

Driven by emerging Internet technologies, IIAs complement Web Services and Internet Middleware to form the basis for a new class of Web-based, real-time business integration and process management solutions.

BlueCat Group BlueCat Group consultants have done pioneering work defining the markets and platform architectures for IIAs.