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 ...

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 ...

impossible task. The term has evolved from describing a relatively simple piece of database connection software to one that is used to describe a smorgasbord of systems. Ron Zahavi, director of ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, writer, fact-checker, and proofreader with more than fourteen ...

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is the use of technologies and services across an enterprise to enable the integration of software applications and hardware systems. Many proprietary and open ...

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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.

“Middleware-as-a-service” will continue to disrupt the market for traditional middleware, while digitalization forces an almost unrelenting need for cloud, mobile, and API-led tactical integration, ...

Application integration is the process of bringing data or a function from one application program together with that of another application program. Where these programs already exist, the process is ...

There are no natural, or even reasonable, integration points. Even if enterprise applications can achieve a measure of integration at the data level, it's likely to be fragile, poorly performing, and ...