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 ...

Running a business these days means juggling a lot of different software. You’ve got your sales tools, your finance programs, your marketing platforms – the list goes on. It can feel like each one is ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

If you want to simplify your applications portfolio to achieve your enterprise architect vision, think ahead to the next stepping-stone toward your goal. Our previous column on stepping-stones for ...

In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core ...

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 ...

Get an overview of Spring Integration’s out-of-the-box event-driven messaging architecture, which you can use to coordinate messages, channels, adapters, and gateways. Then practice using ActiveMQ and ...

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 ...