Category Enterprise Integration

September 14, 2020 Posted in API, Blogs, BPM, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration, ESB, SOA

During past two decades, I worked for Oracle, Accenture, Deloitte and involved clients from different industries, including consulting, forestry, finance, healthcare, retails and government agencies, what I observed was their IT environments are more and more complex and expensive, hard to manage and maintain. To simplify IT and reduce cost become strong demands from business.

In enterprise environment, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is outstanding since the IT environment is changing quickly with the continuous procurement and integration of new systems. The purpose of this article is to provide the perspectives on middleware selection, approaches and tools, and enterprise integration strategies.

A few key principles of enterprise integration:

September 30, 2019 Posted in Blogs, BPM, Database, Enterprise Integration

The concept and discipline of data governance has grown in importance as organizations are forced to comply with regulations, cut costs, integrate among different COTS (Commercial-off-the-shelf) systems, provide data interoperability through internal and external APIs.

One of my retail clients has large daily transaction data flow among retail, wholesale inventory, financial, auditing and warehouse departments, etc. It has separate COTS systems such as JDA ESO, eCommerce Shopify and Tecsys SCM, etc. It also has in-house store master, product master data, etc. In some system, SKU is defined as 6-digits number; in another, it’s defined as varchar. In such a complex environment, data management turns to be an outstanding issue.

In order to improve customer experience, increase efficien...

August 20, 2019 Posted in API, Blogs, Enterprise Integration, ESB, SOA

In enterprise integration area, there are more and more REST APIs than ever. API management turns to be very important for every organization.

I collected the logos of some main API management vendors, along with the logos of those vendors who offer tools that have dependencies with API management, such as data modeling tool, service registry, identity management and application infrastructure, put them together with vendors’ logos who offer monitoring, DevOps and logging services. So we understand the technology stack of API management.

In API management box, I put vendors logos according to Gartner Magic Quadrant for API management...