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 [...]

This is a true incident which happened a few months ago at an upcoming Bay Area-based wireless device manufacturer. I was there to meet with their IT director to discuss their enterprise integration strategy. They had recently acquired a SaaS CRM to replace their on-premise CRM application. They seemed happy and content about their decision. The IT director could not [...]

This is every IT manager’s worst nightmare. You walk into the office. Everyone in your department looks gloomy. The mood in the air is a bit unsettling. As you work through the various worst case scenarios in your head, you open up your email inbox. And right there, at the top, is an email from the CIO titled “Adopt cloud [...]