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 before. We’ve all heard about big data and there are numerous definitions of it. Suffice to say, it’s a lot of data from both [...]

We all deal with data on a day-to-day basis. We handle data as knowledge workers, data crunchers, data creators or consumers in our daily routines. And, I am not even talking about your work yet. You pick up your newspaper in the morning (yes, some of us still do!) and scan through the stocks. You are the consumer of the [...]

Every vendor likes to claim that their product is the most superior in the market. When it comes to ESBs (Enterprise Service Bus), it is no different either. Every ESB vendor claims that their product is indeed the fastest. As a consumer, your question to a statement like that should be “How?”. With the application infrastructure, within an enterprise, changing [...]

Hola! Happy New Year to all of you!! Have you made any new year resolutions? Not the personal types like doing a set of 100 push-ups or cleaning up your carpet or doing the latter while doing the former! I was thinking more of the corporate variety a la goals / objectives for 2013 for your organization. If you haven’t [...]

Before you ask, let me answer. Yes, cloudwashing is an industry-accepted word now! It is a term that signifies any marketing technique adopted by a vendor to sell you any product by associating the word “cloud” to it. So, as a wary buyer, it is important for you to have a thorough knowledge of the things to ask to make [...]

As I am about to attend the Gartner AADI conference in glitzy Las Vegas, I read through the latest predictions report from Gartner on Application Integration. The report is titled “Predicts 2013: Application Integration” dated 14-November-2012 and is written by a few of my favorite analysts – Benoit Lheureux, Massimo Pezzini, Jess Thompson et al. Now, I am a person [...]

As the IT industry evolves each year, so do the technology buzzwords within the industry. Application Integration has been called many different things over the last few decades. The evolution of middleware and various integration patterns have given a total paradigm shift to what application integration is all about today. Then again, with the advent of a lot of newer [...]

A couple of years ago, I was visiting one of my customers, who was a large semiconductor manufacturer based in the Bay Area. I met with their IT team to give them an update of our product roadmap. As a part of that exchange, I asked them to share their architecture so that I could understand the level of maturity [...]