Tag Archives: Enterprise Integration

The NEXT BIG THING is Lean Integration

In last week’s blog I posed the question “What is the NEXT BIG THING?” in integration and reviewed the history of silver bullet solutions including OOD (Object Oriented Development), middleware technology and SOA. While each of these technological advances enabled significant progress, the weren’t the promised silver bullets and the major integration challenges are still [...]

‘Cloud Computing’ is Ready for Enterprise Prime Time, But… (Part 2)

In my last post, I talked about the enterprise integration challenges that still challenge enterprises, even if they have moved processes to cloud computing or Software as a Service providers. Will integration issues dampen the enthusiasm around cloud computing? What’s the role of data environments in these new scenarios? To address these questions, I recently [...]

‘Cloud Computing’ is Ready for Enterprise Prime Time, But…

There’s been no shortage of excitement about “cloud computing” – the idea that applications, databases and even entire data centers can be managed by someone else somewhere else, and be accessed online on an as-needed basis. Instead of maintaining complex software or systems that need constant maintenance and upgrades, a company could theoretically “rent” processing [...]