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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

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For CIO Professionals

Report:The Coming Integration Of Personal Cloud Services And Enterprise Apps

How Workers' Personal Cloud Services Will Link Into Enterprise Applications

Personal cloud services such as Dropbox and Evernote seem like consumer-focused apps that CIOs should block from authorized workplace use. Currently, many CIOs believe that mobile devices and...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Business Networks Will Push The Cloud Beyond IT

The Evolution Of Multitenancy In The Cloud Is Enabling True Business Technology Innovation

Cloud computing has changed the way that IT computing resources are being delivered and consumed, but this change has yet to really affect companies' underlying business models. Although today's CIOs...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Market Overview: Managed File Transfer Solutions

A $1.4 Billion Market Is Growing Rapidly

The managed file transfer (MFT) market is growing rapidly as the shortcomings of using basic file transfer protocol (FTP) to support external file transfers have become more apparent. Both senior...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Seven Top Integration Trends For 2011 To 2012

The Need For Speed, Services, And SaaS Is Shaping The Integration Future

Integration remains a high priority for enterprises in 2011 to 2012, leading Forrester to mine client inquiries and interview industry experts for insight into the latest integration trends....

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Integration Competency Centers Help Large Enterprises Solve Integration Complexity

Integration competency centers (ICCs) have proven to be key catalysts for integration project success, and IT organizations are deploying them in growing numbers. However, the size and mission of the...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Evolution Of Integration Alternatives

This presentation provides some perspective on how integration tools have evolved over the past few years, resulting in significant functional overlap in many cases. It explains the simultaneous...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The Future Of EDI

It's Time To Take A More Holistic Approach

Firms first introduced electronic data interchange (EDI) in the commercial sector in the 1980s to support document exchange in the transportation sector. EDI systems have since achieved critical mass...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The IBM B2B Integration Solutions Strategy

Key Sterling Commerce Products Will Play A Leading Role

IBM has announced its business-to-business (B2B) integration solutions strategy in the wake of finalizing its recent acquisition of Sterling Commerce. It will not drop any of the current inventory of...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:TIBCO's Plan To Acquire Proginet Highlights The Growing Importance Of Managed File Transfer

Enterprise Governance Concerns Drive Increased Demand

In a move designed to provide enhanced governance capability for B2B data exchanges, TIBCO Software has announced that it intends to acquire Proginet. If approved, this acquisition will give TIBCO...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The State Of B2B Integration

Most Enterprises Plan Imminent B2B Upgrades To Address Key Issues

Forrester surveyed 300 senior IT managers in North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regarding the state of their business-to-business (B2B) integration infrastructure and plans for future...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Inquiry Spotlight: Integration Inquiries Are Up 34% Over The Previous Year

An Improving Economic Outlook And Upgrade Plans Are The Key Drivers

Integration is still a hot topic for many enterprises, and this has led to a 34% increase in integration-related inquiries during the past 12 months compared with the previous year. This increasing...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:It's Time To Tame The ERP Integration Beast

Meeting ERP Integration Needs Inside And Outside The Enterprise

Integration challenges are often the foremost obstacle to getting the full value from packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Strategies for overcoming this obstacle vary considerably...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:The CIS Reference Architecture Model

Part Two Of A Two-Part Series On Integration Solution Architecture Models

Comprehensive integration solutions (CISes) are suites of tools that provide the broadest array of internal and external integration capabilities available in the market today. As such, they are...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:2010 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Enterprises Face A Growing Need For A Unified Integration Competency Center

Just as in 2009, technical innovation and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity have continued to have a significant impact on the integration space. The most common trend has been the expansion of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Selecting A Comprehensive Integration Solution

This presentation discusses the factors that should be considered when choosing a comprehensive integration solution. Refer to the recent Forrester document entitled "Create An Enterprise Integration...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create An Enterprise Integration Strategy To Lower Your Costs

A Methodology For Effectively Addressing Today's Business Integration Challenges

Enterprises have traditionally tackled integration challenges as an offshoot of their application development activities, but this approach's effectiveness is waning rapidly. As business challenges...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: How Wyeth Upgraded Its B2B Operations To Support A Global ERP Strategy

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals recently completed a major upgrade to its business-to-business (B2B) capability that supports a global rollout of a single-instance SAP implementation. The upgrade resulted in a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:2009 Update: Evaluating Integration Alternatives

Scenario-Based Guidance For Choosing Products That Provide Application, Process, And Data Integration Features

Technical innovation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity continue to drive the evolution of the integration marketplace, leading to a market with a significantly different array of features...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The Forrester Wave™: Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q4 2008

Software AG, IBM, And TIBCO Software Lead

Forrester evaluated leading integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS) vendors across 109 criteria and found that Software AG, IBM, TIBCO Software, Vitria Technology, Oracle ,...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Many Enterprises Don't Use Their Enterprise Integration Tools For B2B

A recent Forrester survey indicates that just 53% of organizations use their enterprise integration tools to meet their B2B needs. The other 47% rely on B2B-specific integration tools to accomplish...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:User Interviews Reveal Broad Adoption Of IC-BPMS Components

Customers Use BPM And SOA Features The Most; B2B The Least

In just the past three years, we've seen the features available in integration-centric business process management suites (IC-BPMSes) rapidly evolve well beyond their enterprise application...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using BPM To Improve Operational Efficiency

Exploring The Benefits Of BPM

In most enterprises, the ongoing level of manual operations offers fertile ground for improvements in operational efficiency. Enterprise architects can provide leadership in this area by finding out...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Using BPM To Support Innovation

Exploring The Benefits Of BPM

BPM solutions can provide the foundation for many types of innovation, and architects' awareness of how other firms are using these tools can provide a catalyst for joint business/IT brainstorming...

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