application integration

Business Processes Management (BPM). Serena, IBM, Cordys and others have begun to offer enterprise mashup tools, furthering the trend. At times, these tools and processes have blurred the once well defined line between application development and the line-of-business (LOB).

Enterprise mashups, sometimes referred to as Web 2.0 or web application hybrids, are applications that combine two or More...

formerly separate editions of the product within one package.

Moreover, with this new version, the "Kapow Mashup Server" becomes the "Kapow Web Data Server." This can be viewed as a nod to the increasing importance data integration has taken in an "enterprise mashup space" that has, in Kapow's view, evolved to include SOA, BI/Web Intelligence, content migration and portal generation More...

This way, as I go through changing my business process, I can still reuse the things I've laid out as services."

Applying a rules engine to a business process can also increase flexibility. "Anytime you can take the application logic out of hard coding it into the application, it gives you a more flexible process," said Rosamilia. Rules can allow a user to write in natural language and edit More...

be approved by shareholders.

According to Micro Focus, the unnamed competitive bidder has withdrawn from its pursuit of Borland. Borland's ALM business as seen as a significant addition to Micro Focus's basic Cobol and application modernization offerings.

In a statement, Stephen Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of Micro Focus, said: "Both companies are fully focused on completing the More...

based business rules management system from ILOG pursues the on-going trend to make business rules authoring easier, thus putting it in the hands of a wider group of users. It provides ILOG's Rule Solutions for Office integration with Microsoft Office Word and Excel, a very ubiquitous client platform. This release is also said to include improvements for managing and automating More...

This .pdf white paper outlines many of the key elements required for an effective application integration More...

Part 2 of the series, "BizTalk and Application Integration," discusses Enterprise Application Integration. EAI can occur in any type of project. Some classes of project involve integration by their very nature. But what are these projects and what kind of integration is More...

This excerpt from the WROX Press book "Professional BizTalk" by Stephen F. Mohr discusses: the increasing need for application integration tools in corporate development; the role that open standards for information interchange can play in application integration; the features and scope of Microsoft BizTalk Server; how BizTalk Server uses a data More...

Web services promise to deliver additional value to application integration, but organizations should weigh the cost and invasiveness vs. information- or business process-level integration More...

Andre Yee discusses the strengths and weaknesses of XML and it's significance in enterprise application integration. He maintains that XML will not replace the need for EAI technologies, but will complement it More...