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Introduction
 
Avanade is bucking the trend of most organizations playing in the IT sector by growing at 60% year-on-year, and is focused solely on Microsoft infrastructure and technologies. It is gaining significant traction in the market with its ACA.NET framework of reusable components and is reporting exponential interest in advanced web services and SOA frameworks. Now is the time for SOAs to become real.
 

 
Scope
 
Understand the increasing demand for SOAs and advanced web services within the enterprise and what it means for traditional integration initiatives.
 
Avanade Connected Architecture: Library of tools & capabilities that complement Visual Studio .NET & provides XML-based Web services & applications.
 
Applied Solutions: an 'out tasking' offering that assists companies that do not have the capabilities to develop & build flexible infrastructures.
 
Highlights
 
Datamonitor is impressed with the speed that Avanade has developed, both in terms of company size & from a solution perspective. The ACA.NET framework is a good example of creating reusable assets based on traditional infrastructures & confirms the applicability of Microsoft technologies, web services & SOAs within critical enterprise environments.
 

 
One of the key challenges Avanade has to face is brand recognition it faces stiff competition from the likes of IBM & EDS, especially in heterogeneous environments & from smaller boutique consultancies in local markets. Given that it has reduced its dependency on Accenture to provide customer wins, it must be doing something right.
 

 
Reasons to Purchase
 
Find out how Avanade positions its Applied Solutions offering and delivers on the promise of advanced web services and bullet-proof SOAs.
 
Understand Avanade's strategy of meeting the increasing demand for SOAs while delivering on MBS solutions & productizing the assets from ACA.NET.
 
Discover Avanade's future: Avanade will profit from the advances that Microsoft makes in its own technologies & is set to become a household name.
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
ABOUT DATAMONITOR 2
 
INTRODUCTION 5
 
Business drivers for enterprise integration 6
 
The future of integration? 7
 
A service-orientated architecture – NOT just web services! 8
 
AVANADE 10
 
Overview – leading with the ‘Power of Three’ 10
 
en’tegrate acquisition boosts Avanade’s capabilities on the MBS-Axapta solution 13
 
Avanade solution offering 14
 
Avanade Connected Architecture (ACA.NET 4.0) – taking advanced web services and SOA to the next level 15
 
Avanade feeds directly into the Microsoft Enterprise Library initiative, highlighting the significance and capabilities of ACA.NET 17
 
Applied Solutions – ‘out tasking’ for the enterprise 18
 
SUMMARY 20
 
APPENDIX 22
 
Future readings 22
 
Relevant links 24
 
SPP writing team 24
 
How to contact experts in your industry 24