In Flowgear, a small number of “utility” Nodes deal with two common tasks – preparing payloads for use on a Connector Node and then reading part of a response document out of a Connector Node. […]

In this era of digital transformation, one of the key issues being raised is “What do we do about API management?” Enterprises increasingly need to share their datasets with partners, customers and other third parties. […]

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are now a well-known concept in application integration. But people forget that they were only introduced in 2000 when companies like Salesforce, eBay and Amazon launched. Since then APIs have become […]

How do you integrate your on-premise systems with applications in the cloud outside your firewall? The era of business software that only runs on-premise is past its peak and is now on the decline. Increasingly […]

How do you ensure that your integration project is going to be successful? So many IT and business projects go wrong because the people involved miss out some critical elements. While no two integration projects […]

What is the difference between data integration and application integration, and why is the difference important for companies that are considering moving to the cloud? Data integration has been around for a while, but application […]

In a previous blog we summarized some of the main issues that were presented at the Gartner AADI Summit. Gartner are now also predicting that the demand for mobile apps will grow far faster than IT organizations can […]

If you transact with your customers via the Internet, should you be looking at an e-commerce platform? Whether you have an e-commerce website, or will implement one soon, how do you integrate it with your […]

Middleware technologies conceptualized in the 1990s were designed for stable, batch-oriented applications that ran behind a firewall, communicating only via XML and SOAP. The need now is for an integration solution that can handle both […]

Getting software applications inside and outside the enterprise to integrate with each other and transfer data properly has been through many phases. Starting with manual data exchange (i.e. re-typing), and then moving to flat files, […]