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 ...

Lately I've been noticing some real convergence in some generally unrelated areas - Single Sign-On (SSO), the ability to sign into multiple applications and services via one portal, application ...

Of the myriad challenges facing IT staffs, few are as complicated as enterprise application integration (EAI). According to InfoWorld‘s 2002 Application Integration Survey of IT leaders, EAI is still ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get an overview of Spring Integration’s out-of-the-box event-driven messaging architecture, which you can use to coordinate messages, channels, adapters, and gateways. Then practice using ActiveMQ and ...

Most products travel a long and winding road from raw material to a customer's cart, and those materials pass through a lot of hands along the way. At each stage of this process, there's a company ...

There is no denying the fact that cloud-based software and computing services are now accepted as the norm. This change has profound implications on how software applications are architected, ...