WSJ Integration

Vordel Connects SOA to the Cloud

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:15:00 EDT

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 Services, SalesForce.com, and Microsoft Azure. Vordel benefits enterprises by resolving the complexity of connecting SOA and Cloud-based services and providing a secure and transparent environment for this process.

SOA and Data Integration

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:15:00 EDT

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 deal with data and the use of that data for decision support (business intelligence now).

SOA and Integration Testing: The End-to-End View

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:00:00 EDT

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.

Leveraging gSOAP for Legacy Systems Integration

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:45:00 EDT

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).

SOA Data Strategy

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:30:00 EDT

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 primarily an iteration over previous application development models. Like most application development evolutions, SOA approaches inject more layers and flexibility into the application tier, but have often neglected the most fundamental building block of all applications: the underlying data.

Ten Things Your Enterprise Information Intergration Vendor May Not Tell You

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:15:00 EST

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 targeted or are simple examples of how their product works that don't delve into the complexities of a real-world environment. This article presents some of those complexities and demonstrates how some of the EII products may not provide adequate functionality for an environment with such complexities.

Building Your First Trading Partner Community

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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 services companies and least common among retailers.

Web Services Converge with Data Integration

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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 services orchestrates disparate components of the enterprise in a seamless, real-time symphony.

Beyond Point to Point

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

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.