Pass on iPaaS: Acquisition anyone?
So-called neutrality from start-up integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) vendors will become an oxymoron in 2015, due to continued consolidation and alignment between SaaS vendors and iPaaS...
View ArticleIntegration Technology: Spend, Baby, Spend!
The Internet of Things is going to be the biggest driver of spending on integration technology in the next few years. As trends go, the Internet of Things is a big one. The ongoing proliferation of...
View ArticleIoT: The Integration of Things
The Internet of Things is going to be the biggest driver of integration technology in history. Like Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of...
View ArticleHerring’s Bones of Contention — Integration Predictions in 2015
Integration is poised for its biggest year ever and in this blog I look at 8 predictions around Integration and what is going to drive Integration spending and technology in 2015. Always happy to...
View ArticleWhat are Your Hybrid Integration Plans for 2015?
We are more than a week into 2015 and most of us are kicking off our new initiatives for the year. Are you making plans for your hybrid integration platform yet? As more and more cloud applications...
View ArticleThe New Integration Workers – Citizen Integrators
I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration (AADI) Summit in Las Vegas two weeks ago, and one of the messages I heard loud and clear was that...
View ArticleDemo: webMethods Elastic ESB – Scale on-demand
In the past few months, we have had a few posts on this blog about the power of webMethods Elastic ESB. For those of you that may have missed those posts, here is a quick blurb on that. webMethods...
View ArticleDemo of SAP Integration: Get SAP data in under 2 minutes using the webMethods...
When it comes to integration requirements within the enterprise, your system of record becomes the central point of focus. And in most organizations, it is an ERP system like SAP or Oracle...
View ArticleKey Takeaways from the Gartner MQ on On-Premises Application Integration...
Those of us that have been around for the last couple of decades in this space understand the various transformations that this space has undergone to become what is called Application Integration...
View ArticleAn ESB evaluation checklist
If you are in the process of evaluating and selecting an ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), this is a real quick but important check-list to go through to make sure you are looking at the right criteria for...
View ArticleInnovative use cases for integration
There are hundreds of use cases across thousands of enterprises over dozens of industry verticals. That is the nature of the wide range of businesses in today’s world. However, that does not prevent IT...
View ArticleSoftware innovation requires a loosely-coupled application architecture
It is not like anyone is going to disagree with me on this topic but I think it is necessary to emphasize on this now more strongly than ever. The integration landscape is changing quite a bit these...
View ArticleThe Integration Architect’s guide for 2014
I had been meaning to put down my 2014 predictions before much of the year slips away but I was out on vacation. Hey, it is still a new year. Happy Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choi!! Last year,...
View ArticleVision behind Software AG’s GRC Platform: Leader Magic Quadrant for EGRC 2013.
Vision behind Software AG’s GRC Platform In September, Gartner Inc. released the 2013 Gartner Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance (EGRC) Magic Quadrant* and positioned Software AG in the Leaders...
View ArticleMiddleware explained to my parents! (or Kids Guide to what I do)
As marketeers we face the challenge of taking pretty mundane, possibly boring concepts and trying to make them understandable and exciting. For those of you in the middleware space it is really hard to...
View ArticleIntegrate anything with anything!
If you have been listening to integration solution vendors talk about our products, you would have heard a few of us say “integrate anything with anything”. So, how real is that and do customers really...
View ArticleInnovation Happens Everywhere
Companies have many different philosophies when it comes to innovation and growth, but I think they fall into two main categories: Not invented here – basically all innovation needs to happen in-house....
View ArticleWhat it means to use #1 integration technology
In the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for On-premises Application Integration Suites#, Software AG has been positioned as a leader with the furthest position on both axes. But does this ranking really...
View ArticleSubject Matter Experts Unite
We have been really busy lately with our latest acquisition of LongJump and there is great lot of fantastic news about the acquisition and our cloud strategy, but I think the one area the excites me...
View ArticleTaming Big Data and MDM with Integration
Note – This is a post authored by Rob Rowe, Sr. Manager, MDM Product Marketing, Software AG. I just helped in co-authoring the part about taming big data since I have already written on the topic...
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