Jason Compton looks at how companies are turning to web services to automate online processes. The development of XML promised a great deal: the unification of all enterprise software applications ...

As commoditization through Web Services looms large, application integration vendors are completing their transformation to BPI/BPM vendors. Will it be too late? APPLICATION INTEGRATION (EAI) IS OFTEN ...

For a couple of years now, we've been barraged with messages from the press, analysts, vendors, and others about possible useful applications of Web services. Almost all of these messages envision Web ...

Acta Technology has become the first data integration software provider to embed Web services capabilities into an extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) tool, its ActaWorks 5.2. This ...

In an attempt to seed the market for Web services, webMethods Inc. on Thursday served up a free, 60-day evaluation version of its application integration platform. Officials at the Fairfax, Va.-based ...

As a single, easy-to-use entry point for employees, customers and business partners, portals have proved to be effective, if somewhat limited in their capabilities. Linking back-end applications to a ...

Merrill Lynch & Co. has sold a mainframe Web services tool set that processes 1.5 million transactions per day to SOA Software Inc., a service-oriented architecture management and governance vendor.

No one can dispute that the Web has fundamentally altered the way we shop, do business and are entertained. But underneath it all, the Web remains what it has always been-an enormous collection of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Technology and trends are transforming the future of integration, systems architecture and business. Technology is consolidating around ...

I have a newfound appreciation for what it must be like for technology buyers to translate vendor marketing-speak into something credible. My new poster child for this kind of abstraction is IBM's "on ...