A look at the impact of ASPs on the emerging EAI industry
ASPs (Application Service Providers) have grown like wildfire, with such vigor that they have become the hottest IT issue ...
Prohibitive Infrastructure Costs
The concept of EAI isn’t difficult to understand. The difficulty is the high cost associated with building a significant piece of new infrastructure. Like any good infrastructure, EAI ...
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is one of the hottest areas in IT today. However, the name implies an approach to integration that will fail or at best yield less than ...
eAIJ: Given this focus, what companies did you target?
Green: We identified several key pieces of technology we thought were highly complementary to what we did, and we went shopping for ...
eAIJ: Does RosettaNet put some shape around this problem?
Green: RosettaNet starts to provide processes for XML frameworks that can be useful in moving the standards to the next level. Keep ...
eAIJ: So, the interactions are the fundamental building blocks for your integration systems?
Green: Right. As products get more sophisticated, they also get more complicated. Here’s an example: Yo u set ...
While attempting to solve an integration problem at Sun Microsystems, Jim Green realized the existing technologies he had at his disposal were inadequate. After completing several projects, he also realized ...
The Integration Competency Center — Is It Really Necessary?
Do we need an Integration Competency Center (ICC)? The short answer is, “Yes.” The long answer is, “Yes, of course.”
Integration is arguably ...
Will Web Services Kill EAI?
Web services are a Pandora’s box. The basic notion is compelling. Software components offer themselves up as a service to other components or directly to a ...
Securing an MQ Infrastructure
Data security is a business concern requiring developers and system administrators to implement measures ensuring authentication, integrity, and privacy of information assets. When moving data between systems ...
