Vordel, the XML networking management company, today announced at the Burton Catalyst Conference the general availability of Vordel 5.2, its suite of application networking products. Vordel 5.2 enables enterprises to connect their applications to Cloud services such as Amazon Web Servi...

First, the history. Data integration is the name the vendors have adopted to replace the ETL (Extract Translate Load), data cleansing, and data warehousing tools of days gone by. These tools actually pre-date the notion of EAI, and were really the first sets of technology designed to d...

We've seen a dramatic rise in the use of SOA and integration to provide better business process visibility and agility to organizations. The ease and low cost of assembling new systems together makes SOA an efficient and valuable business asset.

The world was about to change, argued Don Box of DevelopMentor when he extolled the virtues of SOAP, the Simple Object Access Protocol, at the 2001 USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS).

The adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises to further decouple monolithic applications by decomposing business functions and processes into discrete services. While this makes enterprise computing assets more accessible and reusable, SOA implementation patterns are pr...

Enterprise information integration (EII) is getting a lot of hype these days, and the vendors are giving you very compelling reasons for why you need an enterprise data access layer based on their EII product. However, a lot of the scenarios and case studies they present are very targe...

Web services seem like a great way to tackle the challenge of trading partner integration. In theory, participants can continue to use the enterprise applications they prefer, and expose them to their partners' systems. However, as of late spring, Web services were most prevalent among...

As data integration tools produce and consume information, a service-oriented architecture presents opportunities for information exchange, data-driven process automation, and business agility. Web services proponents like to rhapsodize about a somewhat quixotic world in which Web serv...

Web services have emerged as an excellent method of integrating pairs of applications. Free and cheap Web services development tools from many different vendors make it easy to expose one application's capabilities to other applications that wish to invoke them.