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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 ...

Everyone knows how important it is to integrate applications. In fact, it is one of the few areas where CIOs are able to gain budget approval. However, when you only focus on integrating at the ...

Google LLC is making developers’ and business users’ work easier today with the general availability of Application Integration, a standalone integration service that allows developers to connect ...

Most enterprises use more than 1,000 apps, according to ESG research, yet about half are integrated with IGA. Industry ...

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 ...

Business process management (BPM) is like Hush Puppies shoes — an old standby that periodically experiences a burst of recognition. Today, BPM is back in vogue, with a twist. It’s no longer the sole ...

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 ...