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European Airline Aims To Delight Passengers Through RFID Bag Tracking

Event-Driven Solution Lowers Costs While Promoting Happy Travelers

by Mike Gilpin, July 15, 2009

Processing lost bags costs airlines a lot of money: more than $1,200 per thousand passengers, not to mention the inconvenience to passengers. Thus, airlines are highly motivated to apply new technology to solving this problem. Through an innovative combination . . .

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Trends 2006: Connectors And Adapters

by Henry Peyret, Ken Vollmer, October 27, 2005

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services will eventually have a big effect on the use of proprietary application adapters. This will cause many integration vendors to be more selective in the number of adapters they choose to create and support. . . .

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Trends 2005: Application Connectors And Adapters

by Henry Peyret, November 8, 2004

In this period of infrastructure integration rationalization, adapter customers must continue to rationalize their adapter base and be aware that proprietary adapters (provided by specialist integration software vendors) still bring better semantic functions . . .

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NetManage's Librados Purchase Adds Up

Vendor Move Brings Composite Apps Within Reach Of The Masses

by George Lawrie, September 22, 2004

On September 22, 2004, Cupertino-headquartered host access and integration solution vendor NetManage announced its intention to acquire — for an undisclosed sum — all Librados' capital. We spoke with both parties to find out why.

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How Will The Emergence Of SOA Affect The Need For Application Adapters?

by Ken Vollmer, Henry Peyret, Mike Gilpin, August 24, 2004

Web-services-enabled SOA will eventually minimize the need for proprietary application adapters, but most organizations will find that such adapters will play a key role in their integration infrastructure for years to come. In addition, the emergence . . .

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IT Trends 2004: Connectors and Adaptors

by Henry Peyret, Ken Vollmer, November 17, 2003

When packaged applications will have delivered their own Web Services connectivity the adapters will theoretically disappear. In the mean time, customers need to continue to apply best practices for adapter implementation.

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IT Trends 2003, Midyear Update: Connectors and Adaptors

by Henry Peyret, June 4, 2003

In the second half of 2003, implementation of connectors will continue to require customers' attention, the number of connectors connecting to the same packaged application will increase, and connector prices will remain high.

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Criteria for Selection: Application Integration Adapters

by Henry Peyret, April 29, 2003

Focus on five criteria when choosing an adapter: (1) architecture and features, (2) smart adapter capabilities, (3) deployment and performance capabilities, (4) pricing and maintenance and (5) vendor viability.

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J2EE Connector Architecture Provides Useful Features but Still Requires Enhancements

by Henry Peyret, April 1, 2003

Those taking a pure standards-based approach for integration will be forced to make choices, in some cases between faster time-to-market use of proprietary extensions or accepting a delay in implementation to wait for standards enhancements.

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Market Overview: Connectors and Adapters for Application Integration

February 11, 2003

Users need a coherent strategy for adapters as part of their broader strategy for integration to help them decide when to buy adapters from independent suppliers and when to buy dedicated adapters from infrastructure providers.

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IT Trends 2003: Connectors and Adaptors

by Henry Peyret, October 22, 2002

Customers need to continue to apply best practices, such as defining pivot format(s) or functional services on top of the connectors to increase independence from application version changes and from connector vendors' strategy changes.

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Insevo's Connectors Go Beyond JCA Compatibility But Don't Replace Integration Servers

by Henry Peyret, May 29, 2002

Insevo provides "smart" connector architecture that will simplify synchronous integration typically using an application server. But contrary to its claims, these connectors do not magically transform an application server to an integration server.

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Choosing a Good Connector for an Integration Solution

by Henry Peyret, December 26, 2001

Choosing a connector that does not provide a good level of functionality can at least double the cost of implementation. But, more seriously, it can multiply by a factor of two to 10 the maintenance and operation costs.

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Web Services Do Not Eliminate the Need for Application Integration Adapters

by Mike Gilpin, October 25, 2001

There is perhaps no evidence more compelling that supports this view than the fact that Microsoft, one of the most enthusiastic proponents of Web Services technology, continues to aggressively promote development of BizTalk adapters.

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Enterprise Application Integration Adapters Frequently Fail to Meet Requirements

by Mike Gilpin, August 21, 2001

In the long run, Giga expects the average quality of adapters to improve, not only because of continuing competition between vendors and enhancements in response to customer demands, but also because of the changing dynamics of the industry.

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Cut Integration Costs With The Right ERP Adapters

by Sharyn Leaver, David Truog, Joseph Volpe, May 15, 2001

Firms can lower ERP integration spending by tapping adapters that operate with integration servers. But some adapters do the job better than others. Firms should look for ERP adapters that tie into the right APIs, filter and transform data, and trigger . . .

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The Battle of Integration Connectors: Which Architectural Layer?

by Henry Peyret, April 30, 2001

When implementing integration, customers must be careful to use the best level possible depending on the project and should also understand the compromises that are made by sacrificing capacity.