Month: July 2007

Tibco Software: Expanding Horizons

Update: Customers of Tibco Software credit the company for not only providing a range of service-oriented architecture (SOA) software, but integrating those modules into a

Project Pointers

PlanningDefine expectations. Establishing a service-oriented architecture can be a complex, multi-year effort. So, up-front planning is essential for getting the job done right, according to

Turning Integration on Its Head

Integration was once the province of custom-built adapters that linked one system to another. The resulting point-to-point integration created a tangle of interfaces that were

IBM: Building Up

IBM has parlayed its middleware background into what customers describe as a broad set of service-oriented architecture (SOA) products and services. IBM’s MQSeries middleware became

WebMethods: Shifting Gears

Customers have been watchingWebMethods closely in recent months.In addition to WebMethods beingacquired in June by Germany’s SoftwareAG for $546 million, the company, earlierthis year, introduced

How SOA is Changing Integration

Business integration garnered a ton of buzz early in the decade. But companies soon learned that point-to-point integration often led to “spaghetti” architectures, leaving a

Making the Business Case for 11g

Now that Oracle has officially unveiled its much-awaited 11g database, industry observers are wondering how quickly users will upgrade to the latest offering. A survey