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It seems integration and SOA are intertwined for most companies, despite what the experts say about the connection being overhyped . You just can't escape the integration value proposition of SOA. M... More >
My editor brought an article to my attention yesterday that contained some startling news. " Popularity of IT integration and service oriented architecture waning ," warned the headline. Now, ... More >
If you've got a few minutes, why not help out a group of MBS (master of business systems) students? I was recently contacted by an MBS group at the University College Cork in Ireland about their onli... More >
For years, my cousin, Scottie, would visit from Albuquerque, New Mexico, every summer. She announced, one summer, that she now went by "Margaret," her first name. Margaret turned into Maggie, then Ma... More >
Over the past year, IBM, SAP, Oracle and, to some extent, Microsoft made quite a few headlines with their data-integration and BI acquisition s and the resulting new offerings. In the midst o... More >
IBM had two major announcements this week , but it's a bit tricky to tell exactly what's new, since the release is two parts product updates and one part rename. Personally, I hate it when ve... More >
CIO involvement with SOA is a bit of a chicken/egg quandary. Are SOA implementations failing because CIOs don't get involved? Or are CIOs smart not to get involved with a failing trend? It's tricky... More >
Open source company Jitterbit released version 2.0 of its data integration platform, Jitterbit Enterprise, this week. Many of the new features are designed to address the needs of large organizations... More >
There's been a lot of chatter lately about SOA governance and how it should be conducted. To be honest, I was a bit dismissive -- yeah, yeah, everybody needs governance, blah, blah, blah. But when I ... More >
InformationWeek produced an in-depth report on Web-Oriented Architecture this month, which I found late last week via this blog post . You'll note the enticing title: "A Better Way than SO... More >
Integration is generally focused on systems that are largely within IT's control. But in some companies, they're looking beyond IT integration to integrating engineering systems with IT, both in term... More >
CIOs seem to have turned off and dropped out when it comes to service-oriented architecture. Of course, this isn't exactly news -- heck, I joined others in writing about it last month - but the not... More >
Normally, this blog focuses on how you can integrate aspects of your infrastructure. But sometimes, I like to diverge a bit and share how vendors are integrating with other vendor offerings or integr... More >
Last week, I shared a couple of articles illustrating the business value of CRM integration . This week, I found another article on a similar theme -- this time touting the benefits of integrating C... More >
No doubt, you've heard of the semantic Web and semantic technology in general. But have you heard about semantic integration? Stephen Lahanas, a principal consultant and co-founder of Semantec... More >
This week, SnapLogic joined the ranks of vendors offering a Salesforce.com Solution Pack. The pack is an extension to SnapLogic's open source data-integration framework and will help organizations in... More >
Could BPEL be the missing key to solving SaaS integration problems? Dr. Jerry A. Smith seems to think so. Smith is the chief technology officer at Symphony Services . In a recent blog... More >
Today, over lunch, a colleague confessed misgivings about SOA. "I'm just not sure if it's hype or real," she said. I assured her I had the same questions when I first started covering SOA, but... More >
When I consider CRM, I tend to think about it primarily in terms of what it can do for the sales force -- and I suspect I'm not alone, given the popularity of Salesforce.com. But this short p... More >
Mark Denchy, director of product management at data integration company EXTOL International, wrote a quirky piece for DM Review this month. It's called, " Five Questions Your Integration Salesman D... More >
You don't see too much published about systems integrators these days, so I thought I'd share this short case study published by ComputerWeekly.com this week. It looks at how systems integrator E... More >
Introducing Mashup Server 1.5. Open source company WSO2 unveiled late last week that it's updated Mashup Server. The key change seems to be that this model is designed for enterprise use and scaling... More >
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