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 ...

Commentary - If you’re like a lot of CIOs, you’ve been in this business a long time and have pretty much seen it all. From mainframe to mid-range to client-server to ASP and everything in between.

Lately I've been noticing some real convergence in some generally unrelated areas - Single Sign-On (SSO), the ability to sign into multiple applications and services via one portal, application ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get an overview of Spring Integration’s out-of-the-box event-driven messaging architecture, which you can use to coordinate messages, channels, adapters, and gateways. Then practice using ActiveMQ and ...

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 ...