Today, most enterprises first try an application service provider (ASP) by subscribing for a single hosted application. Often, this initial trial involves an application such as payroll, which ...

Cloud providers shifted focus from infrastructure services to application-first services consumed directly by developers giving rise to a new application architecture. This architecture lets ...

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 ...

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 ...

(1) Translating data and commands from the format of one application into the format of another. It is essentially data and command conversion on an ongoing basis between two or more incompatible ...

In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core ...

As humans, we instinctively know that integration and working together makes sense. After all, we have been working together as families, groups and teams since Paleolithic times to achieve the best ...

Here is one way to look at distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain in the context of integration evolution. Over the years, businesses and their systems are getting more integrated, ...

Traits give you a way to group together behaviors common to many different custom datatypes. Learn in this video the basics of implementing and using traits on types you create.