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 ...

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AI in middleware means no more war rooms. Systems can spot trouble early, reroute traffic and keep your business running smoothly. I still remember the night an integration pipeline nearly brought one ...

IBM romped its competitors with a solution provider satisfaction rating of 80.5. That was 3.8 points ahead of runners-up Microsoft and Oracle, which tied for second with 76.7. was third with 67.6. In ...

In hyper-connected times of the digital economy, enterprises can no longer afford islands of fragmented systems, disjointed data, and legacy infrastructure. The costs are not merely in operational ...

The pressure to integrate disparate systems across the enterprise is steadily increasing, but establishing connections between systems, even those designed for integration, remains a daunting task.

In the past, IT departments embarked on huge enterprise application integration programmes to connect silos of business software data. IT no longer has the luxury of being able to plan such a ...

IBM's WebSphere franchise led the overall field with about $2.5 billion in revenue for 2004, up 8.7 percent year over year. Its market share inched up to 37.2 percent from 36.3 percent in that time ...

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 ...