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 ...

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In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core ...

Most products travel a long and winding road from raw material to a customer's cart, and those materials pass through a lot of hands along the way. At each stage of this process, there's a company ...

The competitiveness capacity of a business enterprise in the smartphone industry is determined by the scope of its influence in the value chain. An industry value chain is the cumulative series of ...

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 ...

Get an overview of Spring Integration’s out-of-the-box event-driven messaging architecture, which you can use to coordinate messages, channels, adapters, and gateways. Then practice using ActiveMQ and ...

Data Integration vs ETL: What Are the Differences? Your email has been sent If you're considering using a data integration platform to build your ETL process, you may be confused by the terms data ...