IT is often accused of being misaligned with business objectives. One of the biggest problems is that company heads see IT as slow to adapt to changing business conditions. A sound middleware strategy can give IT an agile platform to support where the business wants to go. A well-defined middleware strategy should separate presentation - what the user sees - from business logic. It should also embrace code reuse, which, ultimately, will help IT to deliver applications quickly. Staffing a team for a middleware project can be tricky, and the key role to fill is that of the architect, says Dave Murphy, a vice-president at middleware supplier Tibco who heads the company's professional services division. The architect's task is to define not only the initial configuration of the middleware technology, but also the deployment strategy for rolling it out, and the monitoring processes for the Eve system.
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