http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/ This blog offers an informed and informative perspective on next-generation integration and the ongoing explosion of technologies, data and applications. The ultimate goal: turning the problems caused by this explosion into assets and competitive advantages. en Copyright 2012 Tue, 15 May 2012 20:17:02 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I've been following Mulesoft and their Mule iON Cloud-based application integration platform for a while - in fact, I've written about it here on ebizQ (back in December 2011). They are in that class of vendors that Gartner Research VP... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/mulesoft-focuses-on-saas-app-wins-with-mule-ion-saas-edition.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/mulesoft-focuses-on-saas-app-wins-with-mule-ion-saas-edition.php Cloud Tue, 15 May 2012 20:17:02 -0500 hollis Constellation Research and Ex-Forrester super-analyst R "Ray" Wang sent over a copy of a Research Brief he recently authored entitled "What CFOs Need to Know about SaaS and Cloud Integration". Only 10 pages long, including the cover and "abouts", this... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/what-do-cfos-really-need-to-know-about-integration.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/what-do-cfos-really-need-to-know-about-integration.php Tue, 15 May 2012 13:32:44 -0500 hollis The classic "CIO's Dilemma" is to hold down costs while simultaneously investing in innovation for the future - a bit like trying to fly the airplane while refitting it at the same time. Most organizations can only invest 20-25% on... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/legacy-modernization-integration-agility.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/legacy-modernization-integration-agility.php Enterprise Architecture Sat, 12 May 2012 11:06:39 -0500 hollis I've written a couple of articles over the past week that discuss the challenges associated with communicating the business value of "infrastructure software" like integration. I've suggested that framing the debate around technology and business problems like Legacy Application Modernization... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/integration-number-1-motivator-for-legacy-application-modernization.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/integration-number-1-motivator-for-legacy-application-modernization.php SOA Tue, 08 May 2012 16:50:40 -0500 hollis One of the most challenging things about being an advocate for Integration technology is that Integration does not solve a particular business problem. Instead, it solves about 100,000 business problems (a bit of integration-geek humor for you to use at... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/integration---technology-vs-business-initiatives-like-legacy-application-modernization.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/05/integration---technology-vs-business-initiatives-like-legacy-application-modernization.php Enterprise Architecture Fri, 04 May 2012 13:33:02 -0500 hollis Earlier today, I attended a live webinar featuring Massimo Pezzini, Gartner VP and author of a series of Research Reports on Integration Platforms as a Service ("iPaaS"). I have written a series of articles on these Research Reports - and... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/04/perspectives-on-gartners-data-and-application-integration-story.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/04/perspectives-on-gartners-data-and-application-integration-story.php Enterprise Architecture Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:08:29 -0500 hollis I have not been a big fan of the various iPaaS Research Reports that have come out of Gartner Research. In fact, I have been quite vocal in my suggestions for improvement - with three articles on the topic on... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/04/will-gartner-clarify-integration-ipaas-on-april-24.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/04/will-gartner-clarify-integration-ipaas-on-april-24.php Cloud Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:44:28 -0500 hollis Around the world, organizations spend tens of thousands to tens of millions of dollars every year implementing and supporting Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation (SFA) software. They spend these enormous sums of money for one simple reason... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/03/business-applications-like-salesforcecom-failing-to-achieve-full-value.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/03/business-applications-like-salesforcecom-failing-to-achieve-full-value.php BI Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:55:30 -0500 hollis The build vs. buy debate for integration software (both data and application integration) continues. See it on IntegrationTV's Episode Six. This topic, along with the general debate of what constitutes an integration strategy and the differences between application integration and... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/03/build-vs-buy-debate-on-saas-cloud-integration-continues.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/03/build-vs-buy-debate-on-saas-cloud-integration-continues.php Cloud Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:29:18 -0500 hollis About two weeks ago, Gartner Research released yet another research report on iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) "iPaaS Expands Beyond Cloud Service Integration Through Flexible Deployment Topologies". Rather than clarify the confusion surrounding iPaaS platforms, it jumbles things up... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/02/ipaas---gartner-further-complicates-cloud-saas-integration-with-multiple-distributed-ipaas-and-ceip.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/02/ipaas---gartner-further-complicates-cloud-saas-integration-with-multiple-distributed-ipaas-and-ceip.php Cloud Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:16:43 -0500 hollis Yesterday, I wrote in-depth about Gartner Research's recent iPaaS reports. My conclusion was that "in many ways, Gartner's iPaaS reference model (in all its complexity and ambitiously broad scale) is everything you DON'T need to know about Cloud Integration to... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/damn-the-gartner-ipaas-ceip-full-speed-ahead-on-cloud-integration.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/damn-the-gartner-ipaas-ceip-full-speed-ahead-on-cloud-integration.php Cloud Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:44:52 -0500 hollis What's an iPaaS and where can I get one? I've been reading the various reports from Gartner Research that have been coming out since early 2011 on this topic. To be perfectly straightforward, Gartner's lengthy iPaaS reports leave me a... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/where-do-i-buy-gartner-researchs-ipaas-cloud-integration-confusion.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/where-do-i-buy-gartner-researchs-ipaas-cloud-integration-confusion.php Cloud Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:20:07 -0500 hollis Data problems - whether they be inaccurate data, incomplete data, data categorization issues, duplicate data, data in need of enrichment - are age-old. IT executives consistently agree that data quality/data consistency is one of the biggest roadblocks to them getting... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/crowdsourcing---a-solution-to-your-bad-data-problems.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/crowdsourcing---a-solution-to-your-bad-data-problems.php Community Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:37:11 -0500 hollis Yes.  "Crowd Computing", not "Cloud Computing".  That wasn't a typo. Bad data is a big problem.  An enormously expensive problem.  At this point, most people should be nodding their head - just as if I had said something obvious and true... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/fixing-a-3-trillion-dirty-data-problem-with-crowd-computing.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/fixing-a-3-trillion-dirty-data-problem-with-crowd-computing.php Cloud Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:55:00 -0500 hollis Real-time application integration is picking up speed in the Cloud.  MuleSoft and Zuora just made a significant announcement on this front - one that validates the need for Cloud-based Application Integration, and shows that market is gaining momentum. Reading between the lines,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/cloud-based-application-integration-gains-momentum-with-iapps.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/integrationedge/2012/01/cloud-based-application-integration-gains-momentum-with-iapps.php Cloud Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:33:59 -0500 hollis