The Infospheres Project included research grants by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, The National Science Foundation, and the Center for Research in Parallel Computing. Enterprises have invested large amounts in information technology. Also, there is a wealth of information services available outside the enterprise from governmental and non-profit agencies, suppliers, customers, competitors, and other companies. You can make your enterprise agile today by building applications that compose components inside your enterprise with services outside the enterprise. Exploit existing investments that enterprises have made.
People track shipments, determine flight schedules, check bank balances and participate in auctions.
Your business logic specifies how these components should be wired together. Today enterprises need information fusion just as the military does. An event of concern to an enterprise is often a composition of events generated inside and outside the enterprise.