The convergent demands of enterprise application integration (EAI) and B2B commerce are driving IT departments to look for new, advanced solutions that must be easy to deploy, responsive to rapid change, and hugely scalable and interoperable in a heterogeneous environment. Process-oriented middleware, the evolutionary successor to message-oriented middleware, grew in response to such demands and now offers a powerful tool to simplify IT systems management.

Many people do not understand what SharePoint is or realise that there is no single "SharePoint" product. Hence, various users talk about SharePoint as a content management system, document management system, or consider it to be new portal software. How does Microsoft categorise SharePoint? They call it "collaboration software"...

Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is fast becoming one of the most important aspects of enterprise IT infrastructure architecture. It has drawn significant attention and investment from vendors and IT teams in businesses...

This article provides a basic description of the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of BPMN, an ambitious and increasingly successful attempt to describe the grammar, syntax and semantics of a common language for technology and business...

Tele-networking, or telework, refers to working away from the office using remote access networking technology. Teleworking can raise worker productivity in a distributed enterprise environment but deployment can be demanding. Streamline your implementation with these handy tips...

The same data pipelines which make outsourcing possible also import a black box of risks from your business process outsourcing partner. Learn how your organisation can use enterprise risk management to manage risky externalities...

We expect our application lifecycle management tools to be well integrated. So why are we so worried about upgrading those tools? This is because when we do, the integration breaks. The Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project is going to fix that once and for all...

With so much emphasis on SOA these days, there is a heightened focus on its deployment, success and demonstrable ROI. In fact, Gartner states that the worldwide market opportunity for SOA, including software and services, will continue to grow through 2008 when it is expected to reach USD 143 billion...