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 [...]

I’m probably not connecting all the dots here, bear with me. If you have a mobile strategy, you’re going to be using API’s. It’s the “only way*” to support the breadth of devices to natively access corporate digital assets. If you are already delivering API’s, and delivering them across different teams/businesses to enable a mobile strategy, why not just expose [...]

Several weeks ago, I wrote a Primer on API management and I have received tons of great feedback and questions from blog readers and colleagues in the field. It’s great to see people are finding API management especially relevant to their mobile and cloud strategy.  My colleague David Bressler (has written several posts on this topic – see Enterprise API Trifecta) and has experience addressing API [...]

Will 2013 be the year of disruptive technologies? Is now the time when the ‘Nexus of Forces’ come together to change the way we work and the way organizations do business? Have you asked yourself, can your organization survive if it’s not digital? According to IDC, for “the past several years, the IT industry’s transition to the 3rd Platform, built [...]

SOA is the secret sauce to building great mobile apps.  Loosely coupled, policy driven SOA services help establish a flexible architecture that address the most critical challenges of implementing enterprise mobile apps. For instance, you can uniformly enforce security policies across all types of mobile apps in a reliable and consistent manner.  Using SOA services helps accelerate time-to-market for new [...]

The majority of innovative applications are focused on leveraging the new computing models – mobile, cloud, social and information or Big Data. We recently polled over 200 architects and developers and 67% of those polled identified mobile as a priority for their organization, 47% identified Big Data, 40% identified cloud, and 16% identified social applications. In fact, according to Gartner, [...]

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 [...]

How does a company leverage the same energy seen in the consumer space to drive innovation inside the enterprise? Why couldn’t there be a “corporate instagram-like success”? Why can’t a corporate enterprise service bus excite imagination the way Twitter has? Often its the people way down in the trenches that have great ideas about improvements to the business. Other times, [...]