Standard Open Technologies

Each integration solution will require (a) specific knowledge of an application by the integration solution developers; and (b) specific knowledge of the business nature of the data being transported by the business analysts. Given these two requirements, the platform should not bog the developers or business analysts down with vendor specific or little known technologies beyond their remit. To this end it is imperative that the technologies be widely used and, where possible, industry standard. This should allow any developer to focus on the application specific integration issues and re-use industry knowledge without being subject to a steep learning curve for the infrastructure.