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But what happened to SOA?

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a development pattern where repeatable business activities, such as “check customer credit information“, are published as independent reusable services.

Back in 2000s SOA was the coolest kid in the block  – a must have for every CIO. Gartner’s studies promised huge benefits in form of reusability and modularization. Software vendors ruthlessly used its “must…

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Gartner published four vendors in category Cool Cloud Integrators 2014, let’s have a look on those companies and their offering.

Youredi profiles as a cloud-powered iPaaS and trading partner messaging operator (EDIFACT, UBL etc.). Youredi’s services make the most of cloud scalability and efficiently and that way shake the existing operator markets with aggressive pricing and easy onboarding of…

Using Integration Platform to publish Open APIs

The booming growth of Open APIs is decelerating a little. According to ProgrammableWeb, there is already over 11 000 Open API registered in the end of March 2014. In the beginning of June, amount of APIs were still less than 12k.  Lately, specially enterprise APIs have risen in numbers more than other type of APIs. Currently the amount of Mashups is booming high as figure below illustrates.

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Slap in the face of Microsoft ISV partners

Kill Runtime SQL Server

When Microsoft changed their MS SQL Server CPU based licensing to core based, BizTalk followed this model in the next version. Now Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2014 and changing ISV Royalty Program for SQL Server 2014: SQL Server Standard and Enterprise shall be eliminatedfrom offering – only CAL model is left. At the same time Microsoft reduces prices for full-use…

2014: Annoying cloud and mobile backends

Say Cloud one more time and…

Cloud, cloud, cloud. Yes, repeat is a powerful rhetoric device, but if…

What is the unsexiest area of Information Technology? Answer Percent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 28% Intranets 26% Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) 19% Enterprise Content Management 11% Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 9% Big Data 6%…

Establishing Integration Competency Center, part 5

Part 5: Communication and Tools

The first part of Establishing Integration Competency Centerdescrib…

How to explain EAI to your grandmother? Second try.

I previously explained my work, or especially concept of EAI, to my grandmother: 

“You see,…

EAI - a commodity

EAI Trend

In my home country Finland there are lot of lay offs in large companies and unemployment…

From Systems Integrator to Enterprise Process Integrator

Enterprise Application Integration – EAI is a commonplace term used to describe what Systems…

Establishing Integration Competency Center, part 4

Incident management and problem solving

“All credit and debit card transfer of XXXX are down”.…

Part 3: Release and deployment

High pace and quantum of changes - that is a one of the biggest problems of ICCs to handle. As integration platform grows constantly by new integration solutions and changes to existing ones, it is mandatory to design…

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Establishing Integration Competency Center, Part 2

Part 2: Development and change

In part 1 we set the goals for ICC and chose right kind of persons…

Establishing Integration Competency Center, part 1

Part 1: Goals and Right People

My approach to ICC is ‘hands-on’. To get your hands on to daily,…