Jess Thompson is a research vice president in Gartner's ITL Enterprise Software Web App Dev and Integration group. His research focuses on initiatives using application infrastructure, including application integration (A2A, B2B and cloud-to-on-premises) and near-neighbor initiatives, such as data integration and business process management. He also examines the integration of technologies that support those initiatives, as well as strategies for federating application integration and SOA, data integration, and business process improvement initiatives.