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 ...

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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 ...

Enterprises want seamless integration between their software as a service (SaaS) and on-premise applications. They have similar expectations for B2B integration scenarios that involve multi-enterprise ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Integrating a business’s telephone system with the call agent ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...