"Resilience of a business can be improved (or hindered) by software. Software agility therefore becomes a central challenge for applications and software engineering leaders."

In this report, Gartner analysts Yefim Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Anne Thomas note that "composable applications are the key to achieving agility, but organizations lack methods of measuring application composability." Additionally, software development teams can face risk because of the gaps in preparedness. Without proven best design practices for composable application, software engineering leaders struggle to deliver consistently composable software.

For applications and software engineering leaders aiming to help accelerate business agility, this report guides organizations by helping them:

Assess the composability of applications and design new applications by using the Gartner Composable Business Index as a guide.
Evaluate your organizational preparedness for the composable enterprise before settling on a future roadmap.
Design new applications as composable by default by optimizing for modularity, autonomy, orchestration and discovery.

How to Design Enterprise Applications That Are Composable by Default, 22 August 2022, Yefim Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Anne Thomas. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the US and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.