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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cyberattack cost for U.S. businesses in 2024 was $4.88 million. In addition, Forbes notes that cyberattacks are projected to cost ...