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 [...]

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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 [...]

As we have been preparing our webinar series on Innovation through Integration, I keep coming to the same conclusion that integration isn’t just a nice to have, or a piece of infrastructure to consider. Rather, integration is the name of the game. In fact, integration has become the application. I am sure there are exceptions to the rule, and the [...]

Why is integration more important today than ever before? The answer lies in the way technology forces are reshaping IT. In fact, today we are witnessing a perfect storm of technology trends. These trends are collectively becoming known as the “four forces” of mobile, social, cloud and big data, and they are creating an opportunity for companies to leverage the proliferation [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]