As today's organizations seek to leverage both their existing IT systems as well as innovative new applications, more business-to-business partnerships, and trends like mobile, social, and cloud computing, integrating these heterogeneous environments becomes a more important— and more complex— challenge than ever before.

As Gartner Inc. research vice president Benoit Lheureux explains in this expert e-guide, tackling the complexities of this new era of application integration requires advanced middleware tools as well as new strategies.

Read this expert e-guide to explore study results indicating how your peers are creating seamless interoperability within their extended IT environments. Also, discover recommendations from the analysts at Gartner and other leading firms regarding best practices for modern application integration.