During the 1990s, companies bought packaged software solutions such as SAP, Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Siebel, Clarify, and so on. Although such packaged software solutions worked well ...

Middleware vendors are now jockeying for a piece of the new enterprise integration architecture market, commonly called EAI. This month, we discuss what EAI is, what it means for the business, and how ...

Application integration has a split personality. By some accounts, it’s the good Dr. Jekyll, ready to cure whatever ails the enterprise: Share data with employees, efficiency soars; share data with ...

Application integration may hold much more benefit than most Java development shops realize. The TheServerside.com Readership Survey 2011 has revealed that only 20% of surveyed IT professionals say ...

Seeking to make it easier to synchronize data between applications and across enterprise boundaries, Talend on Monday delivered a unified platform for both data services and applications integration ...

Business integration is a top-down strategic approach to creating composite applications. In contrast, applications integration begins with low level coding in order to knit together disparate systems ...

The Harvard Business Review blog recently published a piece exploring the platform as a business model. Honestly, this strikes me as a unique opportunity for IT, because who better understands the ...

(1) Translating data and commands from the format of one application into the format of another. It is essentially data and command conversion on an ongoing basis between two or more incompatible ...

Better integration makes it easier to bring your people, systems, and data together in one place to give individuals what they need, when they need it, wherever they need it. On Sept. 23, 1999, a NASA ...