More and more organizations are realizing that data integration done RIGHT can be a key differentiator.  But, with the ever-changing integration landscape, how can IT professionals be sure they are taking the right approach?  Has the democratization of integration services thanks to Cloud and SaaS-based services made the lives of business and technology innovators easier, [...]

This question goes right to the heart of many of the problems that we experience in building business systems. We can think of there being two distinct positions in this. One is the object oriented (OO) approach to data, the other is the relational approach. The OO Approach: From the OO perspective, an object consists [...]

Long before metadata became a problem, it was a blessing. Prior to the invention and proliferation of databases, the contents of any given file were defined only within the programs that used them. Files never declared anything about the data they contained in any standard way. This meant that you had to depend upon a [...]

When we think of data integration, we rarely think about something like Document Conversion. By this I mean, taking a Microsoft Word document file format (.docx) and converting it into a PDF file format. This is a different type of “Migration” or “Conversion” that integration vendors usually will leave to other more simple, or free [...]

If you are an independent software vendor or a service provider, automation of your integration process for on-boarding customers needs to be slick, seamless, and manageable. If customization needs to happen, it needs to be accessible. If customers demand configurable run times, it needs to be flexible (without a brand new project containing a huge [...]