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XML integration: Buy or build?
News Now that the industry has standard protocols like TCP/IP, HTTP, and SMTP, and markup languages like HTML and XML, the plumbing is in place in most organisations to build integration applications. However, companies are beginning to recognise the...
[October 3, 2002, 12:03]
Software developers win engineering award
News The prize, awarded on Thursday by the Royal Academy of Engineering and presented by the Duke of Edinburgh, was won by a team from IBM's Hursley Lab for developing WebSphere MQ application integration software.
[June 11, 2004, 17:40]
Standard Web Services?
News The best projects to pursue at this point are well-defined integration projects for medium- to large-size businesses, according to Bill Ericson, vice president of development at SwapDrive, a developer of online data backup systems.
[September 26, 2002, 14:24]
Why integration will make or break your CRM plans
News Complicating this integration is the thorny fact that frequently business definitions differ from system to system: what is a "customer" in one system may be a "household" in another. Thus, data integration can't happen without consistent data and...
[May 19, 2002, 22:42]
IBM bypasses Microsoft Web services spec
News The IBM-led group also designed the specification to work easily with integration "brokers", specialised middleware that sends data messages across a network. Server-based integration software handles the delivery of data via messages.
[January 21, 2004, 11:05]
Tibco takes steps into Europe
News Tibco Software has licensed its business integration software to two large European technology companies, marking another win for the applications maker. The company competes with IBM, WebMethods, and Vitria in the market for application...
[February 4, 2004, 8:25]
Sun touts total package
News Sun's integration work will extend to hardware as well, through projects such as N1. With this holistic strategy, Sun pays for integration that customers would otherwise have to do themselves or pay a third party to do.
[September 15, 2003, 12:40]
Salesforce adds customisation option
News Salesforce.com introduced the latest update to its hosted customer relationship management package on Tuesday, with a focus on increasing customisation and integration capabilities throughout its applications.
[November 3, 2004, 8:43]
Alliances spring up under cloud cover
Comment An efficient cloud environment relies on shared information and the integration of routers and switches with application delivery controllers, virtual machines and storage systems. The collaboration required to enable an efficient, flexible cloud...
[November 24, 2009, 10:48]
Win XP to launch .Net on grand scale
News With the release of Windows XP--the first major public step in its .Net initiative--the software leader is in the excruciatingly delicate position of pushing to market a crucial product featuring an integration plan that is being challenged as...
[October 19, 2001, 8:58]
Could IBM-PeopleSoft deal stave off Oracle?
News The closer integration between IBM's middleware and PeopleSoft applications will give customers more flexibility to modify PeopleSoft products and connect to other systems, the executives said. At its Connect 2004 customer conference in San...
[September 22, 2004, 11:40]
Longhorn and the Linux long-game
News Customers love open source because it's cheap and they think it's more reliable and secure than Microsoft, but you need different pieces and the problem is integration, which is real. Olivier Nguyen van Tan, chief operating officer of Pierre Audoin...
[March 9, 2005, 11:20]
Europeans turn to Web services
News Most of the IT directors who back Web services said the enabling technologies will be among their top their spending priorities for the coming year, along with application integration and security. Neil Macehiter, senior consultant at Ovum, added...
[October 7, 2002, 15:43]
HP takes merger into a new year
News But though some things seem to be running smoothly, other integration tasks aren't exactly following the script. Another area in which integration efforts are taking longer involves HP's international reach.
[November 1, 2002, 16:18]
Symantec shareholders back Veritas takeover
News They've been asking questions about the integration plans and the progress on that…There hasn't been a lot of questions on the strategy (of the merger)," Thompson said. The bulk of the heavy lifting will be done in the first six months," Thompson...
[June 27, 2005, 10:35]
OpenOffice gets major facelift
News It's a native, default file format for us.and the open-source side is very competitive on integration," he said. But Michael Gartenberg, an analyst for Jupiter Research, said the wealth of ready-made integration and add-on tools that will surround...
[October 2, 2003, 10:15]
VPN costs: appliances versus servers
News The integration of VPN services into the operating system means that IT professionals who work with these operating systems are already familiar with how to navigate these systems and do not have to worry about learning a new product.
[May 21, 2002, 10:43]
Seamless integration? Get real
News Getting to that level of integration is the Holy Grail for most of the IT directors we speak to," he says. There's no simple answer to real-time integration. Real-time integration between the two was vital because the mobile phone market is so...
[December 10, 2003, 10:55]
IBM to unveil new Web services tools
News The other major players in the application server software market are pursuing a similar strategy, bringing together an increasing number of tools to let users work on both development and integration.
[November 25, 2002, 8:13]
Selling Microsoft's integration vision
News In a world of abundant processing power, you may choose to waste processing power in order to drive integration. You'd rather waste CPU cycles in order to deliver a better experience or do a better job on the integration side, whatever is needed.
[November 14, 2005, 15:00]
