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Talend Launches Real-Time Data Integration Platform
The Talend Integration Suite RTx enables IT organizations to accelerate the movement of data across computing systems, providing up-to-the-minute data to help in decision-making.
by Antone Gonsalves

Salesforce Enticing Customers With Force.com Free Edition
The initiative lets customers build Web applications and, if they wish, their own branded Web site to be operated on the Salesforce.com infrastructure.
by Charles Babcock

Amazon Adds CloudWatch Monitoring, Other Services
The Amazon move follows an earlier offering by open source Web site management firm Hyperic.
by Charles Babcock

Sybase Reaches For The Clouds
The database vendor introduces an initiative to make it possible for developer to build, test and deploy applications in cloud-computing environments, starting with Amazon EC2.
by Antone Gonsalves

Lombardi Upgrades SaaS-Based BPM Software
The new version of Blueprint borrows from online social networks with read-only views of process maps and diagrams that allow line of business employees, partners and customers to comment directly in threaded conversations with process authors.
by Antone Gonsalves

Lombardi Upgrades SaaS-Based BPM Software
In the latest release of Blueprint, Lombardi adds read-only views of process maps and diagrams that allow line of business employees, partners and customers to comment directly in threaded conversations with process authors.
by Antone Gonsalves

SaaS Market Predicted To Grow By 22% This Year
SaaS adoption has become more widespread, as business and computing models have matured, improving security response time and service availability.
by Antone Gonsalves

SeeWhy Takes Complex Event Processing To Web Analytics
The company launches a free online service called Abandonment Tracker that helps companies reach out to Web site visitors who abandon shopping carts or start, but never complete, registration forms and other processes.
by Antone Gonsalves

Attensity, Empolis, Living-e Merge To Deliver Combined Customer Analytics
The new company, called the Attensity Group, will offer products that analyze customer feedback and comments across internal and external channels, including the Web.
by Antone Gonsalves

The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards: The Intelligent Enterprise Dozen
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by David Stodder

A Year in Perspective
A look back at the news of 2003 and a projection of trends in 2004
by Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young

The 2004 Editors' Choice Awards
Business intelligence, performance management, and all forms of integration are the dominant requirements addressed by the 12 IT solution providers that make up our supreme list for 2004.
by David Stodder, Jeanette Burriesci & Michelle M. Young

Companies to Watch 2004
Watch these important enablers of the intelligent enterprise.
by Michelle M. Young

Smart Synergy
With real-time business becoming a key objective, the worlds of enterprise application integration (EAI) and business intelligence (BI) are converging. What will it take to forge the most perfect union?
by David S. Linthicum

The Portal Reborn
Process management's evolution, supported by recent technology advances, gives IT good reason to look again at what kind of portal will deliver the most value to users. Here are the best practices to help you succeed
by Mark M. Davydov

SOA: The Process Development Paradigm
Leaving software development's dysfunctional legacy behind, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is gathering momentum as the paradigm for developing process management applications. Using Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2004 as an example, here's a look at how SOA works
by Ira Fuchs

BSP First-to-Market Opportunity
Many businesses are taking advantage of the Web services architecture to become business service providers (BSPs). Before jumping headfirst onto the BSP bandwagon, it's important to understand, articulate, locate, and pilot your service offering. Here's how.
by Stewart McKie

Web Services: It's About Connections
What do Web services really mean for your organization? The most important effect will be a blurring of internal and external services, spurring a need for new architecture. Thanks to competition, the result will be higher-quality software carried by connected services
by Douglas K. Barry

Integration Rising
Integration is pervasive throughout all levels of enterprise development
by Michael J. Hudson

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Web Services Papers
Free white papers and reports on the Intelligent Enterprise Research Library. Plus research from the leading analyst groups.

Take One For Web Services
There seems to be an inverse proportion between the size of the technological stride and the time it takes to achieve success. Nowhere is this tenet more applicable than in the case of Web services. Web services have come a long way in just a few years. While initial adoption of Web services by end users was slow, organizations are now realizing that the architecture can offer faster and more cost-effective solutions to their integration and interoperability problems.

Maximizing Site Performance
Savvy companies understand that site performance and availability are the backbone of their online presence. In the Internet's earliest days, a simple FTP ping was good enough to check availability. Today companies can have multiple sites accessed around the globe. If those sites are unavailable, your investments in content and management technology mean nothing.

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XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means
O'Reilly, 2002

B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise
David S. Linthicum
Addison-Wesley, 2001

Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
Steve Graham et al
Sams, December 2001

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