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 ...

You know how everything in fashion makes a comeback a generation later? Integration technology is sort of like that, but the turnaround is much, much faster. For instance, it’s been 30 years and we’re ...

Enterprise integration is the process of connecting disparate systems and applications within an organization in order to streamline business processes. This process allows for data exchange between ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, writer, fact-checker, and proofreader with more than fourteen ...

My first encounter with enterprise integration dates back to the early 2000s. Remember those days when Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) emerged as the antidote to the convoluted labyrinth of closely ...

For thousands of years, we Homo Sapiens have tackled architectural and engineering challenges with remarkable success: the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Roman Aqueducts, the Taj Mahal, the ...

The real world is deeply interconnected, but businesses still aren’t – witness the global impact of the recent CrowdStrike outage, drought in the Panama Canal, and other prime shipping route ...

Getting disparate systems—from the plant to the business level—to automatically share data effectively for improved business intelligence, visualization and decision making has been a ...

Enterprises collectively spend $500 billion annually working with system integrators to link up the apps and services they use to run their businesses so that they can work together. Now, tapping into ...

Portal vendors are changing their products into independent architecture layers that span a broad set of infrastructure pieces. As a result, the technology is enabling a new style of integration ...