Tag Archives: EAI

The Power Of Data

I was happy to do an architect-to-architect Webinar with David Lyle, which was more of an interactive conversation than a Webinar.  The focus was on the ability to provide integration using data virtualization, but the message was perhaps more profound than that. The core issues that many enterprises face are that information is largely an [...]

EAI and Data Integration: Like ‘Fitting Square Pegs in Round Holes’

For years, organizations have been relying on strategies such as enterprise application integration to streamline and automate business processes from disparate silos and systems. However, there’s a large gaping hole in the capabilities EAI – and its successor, enterprise service buses – can deliver. Current middleware strategies fall short in addressing data integration and data [...]

The Right Way To Do Data Integration For Applications

On the 1st October 2009, I participated in a webinar “The Right Way to Do Data Integration for Applications,” hosted by David S. Linthicum, a recognized expert in SOA, Cloud computing and Enterprise Application Integration. It was an event that was very well attended and generated a lot of interest from the attendees judging by [...]

BPM for MDM – Great for Inbound, But Not So Much for Outbound?

The recent blog post from Forrester Research analysts Clay Richardson and Rob Karel posed an excellent question around synergies between Business Process Management (BPM) and Master Data Management (MDM). Siperian customers have been at the forefront of driving these synergistic requirements that have made the Siperian MDM Hub uniquely suited for bringing together BPM tools such as Lombardi with MDM to enable data governance.

Enough Already About “What Is SOA?” Let’s Discuss Some Real-World Myths About SOA…

I am back after a somewhat self-imposed hiatus during which I have been doing some soul-searching, or rather talking to a number of practitioners, experts, thought-leaders and analysts in the integration space. My singular quest was to uncover some real-world myths about SOA. I spoke to a variety of integration experts – enterprise and application [...]