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  • Failure to see eye-to-eye with users about cloud could mean tough times for IT

    Posted April 15, 2011 - 11:58 am

    Cloud computing looks like a perfect, low-cost IT solution, at least to business managers, who are increasingly unhappy with IT for not giving them what they want, Accenture report shows.

  • Cloud App integration: What's the best path?

    Posted January 14, 2011 - 5:53 pm

    There's a lot of noise from vendors of every stripe about the cloud. Unfortunately, in the vendors' efforts to show how all their products are cloud-based, there's a lot of blurring about the specifics of what it means to be a cloud application. Consequently, this article will apply differently to every cloud vendor. (And for the purposes of this article, let's keep the discussion to SaaS and cloud-based apps from a vendor or integrator, not ones you build yourself, although some of the same principles apply.)

  • Open source's integration jams -- and how to fix them

    Posted May 10, 2010 - 3:53 pm

    Open source is almost like religion: Either you believe or don't believe that it's a better solution than enterprise software, says Sheldon Wang, chief technology officer at eHealth Inc.

  • TD Bank struggles to fix computer glitch

    Posted October 4, 2009 - 9:09 pm

    Problems related to a troublesome computer integration effort have affected numerous customers of TD Bank N.A, one of the largest banks in the U.S.

  • BI Grows Up: IT Moving Past Integration Woes

    Posted May 11, 2009 - 9:39 am

    Sometimes, one year can make all the difference for corporate IT departments.

  • Untangling Enterprise Systems for Sudden Change

    Posted March 23, 2009 - 9:32 am

    If your CEO knocks on your door tomorrow morning to tell you that the business is selling off a division next week or acquiring a competitor's assets, he's going to want to know if the IT systems can handle this type of abrupt transaction. Well, can they?

  • Facing tough times may be here to stay

    Posted April 11, 2008 - 2:24 pm

    Strategies that some systems integrators are implementing to stay afloat during these tough times.

  • Connecting A to B: A swivel chair approach

    Posted March 24, 2008 - 3:15 pm

    If you had to name one highly effective enterprise application integration strategy what would it be? An Enterprise Service Bus? A Service Oriented Architecture? A distributed object API? How about an asynchronous messaging substrate? Sometimes, when my disposition shades towards the cynical end of the spectrum, I find myself comparing these things to pouring gasoline onto a fire. In more optimistic moments I compare them to laying down freeways. It is more concrete but designed to facilitate interconnection of existing concrete (buildings).
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