There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and ...

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, ...

The competitiveness capacity of a business enterprise in the smartphone industry is determined by the scope of its influence in the value chain. An industry value chain is the cumulative series of ...

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 ...

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.

My first encounter with enterprise integration dates back to the early 2000s. Remember those days when Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) emerged as the antidote to the convoluted labyrinth of closely ...

For thousands of years, we Homo Sapiens have tackled architectural and engineering challenges with remarkable success: the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Roman Aqueducts, the Taj Mahal, the ...

Integration is the bedrock of modern digital transformation. (Image: middleware technologies) The more things change, the more they stay the same, and not even digital technology escapes this ...

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 ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 ...

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