Supply chains are messy. Prices rise abruptly, products or raw materials become unavailable, shipping and transport are overloaded, and competing vendors struggle for customers. Integrating ...

The combining of subroutines, software modules or full programs with other software components in order to develop an application or enhance the functionality of an existing one. Often requiring a lot ...

In case you missed it, Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at today’s Apple Q4 earnings call. What he had to say about 7-inch tablets, Android, Nokia, RIM and Apple’s philosophy is all over 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 ...

My first encounter with enterprise integration dates back to the early 2000s. Remember those days when Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) emerged as the antidote to the convoluted labyrinth of closely ...

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 ...

Too many CIOs wire systems together and hope for value; real integration works when business goals, data and resilience come first. In my experience with large-scale enterprises, I have seen ...