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You're good at integration. But are you too good? (Pause for dramatic effect.) Well, are you? As it turns out, that's a darn good question to ask yourself, because, apparently, I... More >
There's been a lot of talk about what SOA could do for cloud computing, but ZapThink's Ronald Schmelzer recently flipped the equation , pondering what cloud computing can do for SOA. Schmelze... More >
Earlier this week, I pointed out a Bio-IT World article relating how Pfizer was using semantic technologies to circumvent data silos for better pharmaceutical research. They'd built a system... More >
I love "The Daily Show ." I'm a former newspaper journalist, and maybe I've developed a touch of Grumpy Old Fart Syndrome, but it seems to me most of what passes for journalism these days is ... we... More >
Much of my adult life, I walk around in denial about what a complete nerd I am. I make excuses – I write about technology, I don't technically work in it. Yeah, I'm on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, an... More >
Whatever shall we do with legacy systems? It's an IT conundrum. They're big, bulky and stuffed with useful data – and, try as you might, legacy systems just won't play well with modern applica... More >
Every time I write about SaaS, some astute reader responds that integration challenges are not unique to SaaS and, in fact, have plagued on-premise applications for years. Take last week, for ... More >
One topic I've written about a few times is this concept of using SOA for integration. Despite the fact that many, many companies move to a service-oriented approach because of the integration benef... More >
Yesterday, I noted that there isn't a whole lot of regular discussion about SaaS and integration. There are, however, plenty of articles and posts about SaaS and SOA, as well as SOA and cloud ... More >
Keeping up with SaaS news is like trying to keep a litter of puppies in a box: Another piece is constantly popping up. Yet despite the flood of SaaS coverage, very few articles mention the int... More >
It's nearly spring and that means it's time for spring cleaning - or, at least, that's what my mother tells me every year about this time. Of course, we don't burn coal inside our house anymor... More >
IT people really hate the word "integration." This can be hard to understand if you hail from the business side. Integration certainly seems like a good thing – getting systems, databases or... More >
The buzz from FOSE (Federal Office Systems Exhibition) this week is that federal government agencies are intrigued by the cost-saving potential of SOA and cloud computing. That's according to ... More >
Does anybody know if the U.S. government takes PayPal? I ask, not for myself, but for my friends at JP Morgan Chase. You probably don't remember it, but JP Morgan was a bit short and borrowed... More >
Middleware is supposed to solve integration problems, but some say its proliferation may cause more integration problems than it solves. For instance, in November, ZapThink wrote a piece arguing that... More >
Honestly, I've never really thought that much about whether print marketing people coordinated with online marketing people or direct sales marketing or even whether any of them checked Web metrics t... More >
Sometimes, it's good thing that search is so dumb. For instance, I have a Google alert set up for enterprise integration. As you can imagine, there's a range of unusual articles that fall into... More >
Business in general and IT in particular are often obsessed with finding “best practices.” I suppose the logic is, if you know what constitutes a best practice, you can duplicate it and create your o... More >
It's a good time to be a data-integration specialist, it seems. But then again – when is it ever a bad time to be a data-integration specialist? This week, Enterprise Systems examined the imp... More >
If you're curious about Salesforce.com and integration, Ron Papas, the general manager of Informatica’s On Demand Business Unit, recently wrote a post on this very topic. Apparently, the sho... More >
Last week, I wrote a post on Why Companies Still Hand Code, But Don't Have To , despite the numerous data-integration tools of all price ranges available on the market. In the piece, I summed up the... More >
Maybe it's the economy, or maybe it was Anne Thomas Manes' January declaration of SOA's death , but I've definitely noticed a shift in the way people talk about service-oriented architecture. ... More >
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