Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, writer, fact-checker, and proofreader with more than fourteen ...

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Application integration may hold much more benefit than most Java development shops realize. The TheServerside.com Readership Survey 2011 has revealed that only 20% of surveyed IT professionals say ...

During the 1990s, companies bought packaged software solutions such as SAP, Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Siebel, Clarify, and so on. Although such packaged software solutions worked well ...

Business integration is a top-down strategic approach to creating composite applications. In contrast, applications integration begins with low level coding in order to knit together disparate systems ...

Middleware vendors are now jockeying for a piece of the new enterprise integration architecture market, commonly called EAI. This month, we discuss what EAI is, what it means for the business, and how ...

There is no denying the fact that cloud-based software and computing services are now accepted as the norm. This change has profound implications on how software applications are architected, ...

Data integration can seem like a never-ending quest as organizations try to combine and access data from disparate applications and sources. But as we move beyond relational as the only DBMS type that ...