Summary

An application integration environment cannot function successfully if you do not carefully consider the security and operations requirements you face. These considerations are particularly important because application integration issues are likely to span many departments within your organization. As you define your application environment, you should use the opportunity to look again at the security and operations practices within your organization and to determine whether they should be modified. If you consider security and operations practices early and give them sufficient emphasis, you will increase the chance of your application integration environment operating securely and reliably over time.