The post of the break was one by Joe McKendrick, who says, “SOA is integration. SOA is not integration. Simple as that.” In essence, he looks at some of the confusion around the value that SOA brings ...

Integration is the third rail of corporate IT. The mere mention of the word raises terrifying thoughts of huge budgets, endless meetings and extremely complicated software. Integration projects can be ...

With all the attention that service-oriented architecture and Web services are getting, I thought I’d fast forward to a time when every organization has implemented SOA and Web services to some extent ...

If you want to simplify your applications portfolio to achieve your enterprise architect vision, think ahead to the next stepping-stone toward your goal. Our previous column on stepping-stones for ...

Two dominant forces have recently emerged as game-changers: multicloud architecture and artificial intelligence integration. As businesses strive to stay ahead in the digital race, the confluence of ...

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 ...

Why is data integration so difficult? For many organizations, data integration has been handled as a dark art over the years, implemented behind the scenes with ad hoc scripts, extract, transform, and ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle is providing additions to its Application Integration Architecture that allow customers to integrate application components to create composite applications and extends the ...

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