Governance and Cloud Integrations
The IT industry is notorious for coming up ambiguous terms that have left the brightest people scratching their heads at times. For example, a simple term such as service can mean different things to...
View ArticleRetail Stores Integration
Integration problems are abound in pretty much any industry across the globe but two verticals where integration is a dire necessity are – Manufacturing (Supply Chain) and Retail. The former has too...
View ArticleIntegrate anything with anything!
If you have been listening to integration solution vendors talk about our products, you would have heard a few of us say “integrate anything with anything”. So, how real is that and do customers really...
View ArticleMapping and Transformation – A critical integration platform function
One of the most overlooked functions of an ESB Designer toolset is the ability to do mapping & transformation of data between a source document and a target document. As much as Application...
View ArticleAdapters / Connectors – A critical integration platform component
Following my previous post, I want to also spend some time on emphasizing that another critical integration platform component that needs to be carefully evaluated is the adapter / connector framework....
View ArticleIntroducing webMethods Elastic ESB
Until recently, all integration vendors have talked about scalability of their integration platform purely by adding more memory or by adding more physical servers to the infrastructure. Realistically...
View ArticleThe Integration Architect’s guide for 2014
I had been meaning to put down my 2014 predictions before much of the year slips away but I was out on vacation. Hey, it is still a new year. Happy Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choi!! Last year,...
View ArticleSee webMethods CloudStreams in action!
By now, you probably know what is webMethods CloudStreams. If not, my previous posts on Cloud Integrations and Governance should set the context or my post on our TECHCommunity blog should give a clear...
View ArticleSoftware innovation requires a loosely-coupled application architecture
It is not like anyone is going to disagree with me on this topic but I think it is necessary to emphasize on this now more strongly than ever. The integration landscape is changing quite a bit these...
View ArticleInnovative use cases for integration
There are hundreds of use cases across thousands of enterprises over dozens of industry verticals. That is the nature of the wide range of businesses in today’s world. However, that does not prevent IT...
View ArticleAn ESB evaluation checklist
If you are in the process of evaluating and selecting an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), this is a real quick but important check-list to go through to make sure you are looking at the right criteria for...
View ArticleHow to conduct an Integration POC?
In my days as a Systems Engineer at Software AG, I have done scores of POCs (Proof of Concept) and that too, integration POCs at various companies. In those six years, I have seen some really simple...
View ArticleKey Takeaways from the Gartner MQ on On-Premises Application Integration...
Those of us that have been around for the last couple of decades in this space understand the various transformations that this space has undergone to become what is called Application Integration...
View ArticleDemo of SAP Integration: Get SAP data in under 2 minutes using the webMethods...
When it comes to integration requirements within the enterprise, your system of record becomes the central point of focus. And in most organizations, it is an ERP system like SAP or Oracle...
View ArticleDemo: webMethods Elastic ESB – Scale on-demand
In the past few months, we have had a few posts on this blog about the power of webMethods Elastic ESB. For those of you that may have missed those posts, here is a quick blurb on that. webMethods...
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