SAP Opens The ‘Miss Congeniality’ Contest

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Furthermore, EI (Enterprise Integration) supersedes SAP's proprietary enterprise applications integration (EAI) architecture called Application Link Enabling ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2001/12/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_12_04_01_1.asp - 20k Summary: While SAP’s determination to become enterprise applications Web Esperanto evangelist is of paramount importance to its customers and for the general market direction, one should by no means expect short-term tectonic moves.

SAP Weaves Microsoft .NET And IBM WebSphere Into Its ESA Tapestry ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Furthermore, its Exchange Integration superseded SAP's proprietary enterprise applications integration (EAI) architecture called Application Link Enabling (ALE ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/03/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_03_06_03_1.asp - 30k Summary: With SAP NetWeaver and the Enterprise Services Architecture, SAP will have delivered the blueprint for turning Web services from a concept into business reality of uniting hardware, information, and software platforms & applications.

What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic & Olin Thompson ... with the core ERP (enterprise resource planning) system as well as its proprietary enterprise applications integration (EAI) architecture called Applications ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/06/research_notes/TN_ER_PJ_06_21_03_1.asp - 26k Summary: With increased competition, deregulation, globalization, and mergers & acquisition activity, enterprise software buyers realize that product architecture plays a key role in how quickly vendors can implement, maintain, expand/customize, and integrate their products. Many in the enterprise applications v

JD Edwards Chooses Freedom to Choose EAI

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... ÿþJD Edwards Chooses Freedom to Choose EAI PJ Jakovljevic - July 27 ... freedom to adopt new technologies into an open, collaborative architecture, and freedom of ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/07/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_07_27_00_1.asp - 27k Summary: J.D. Edwards announced a new corporate vision that extends its ‘idea-to-action’ to inter-enterprise collaboration expressed in the phrase ‘freedom to choose’. In other words, take the best of ERP, CRM, eBusiness, and business intelligence components, plumb it with possibly the best of EAI and th

Siebel Rallies Its Integration Alliance Troops Part 2: Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... new users should base their software purchase decisions on many other criteria like impending EAI costs, product usability, product architecture, and Total ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/05/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_05_13_02_1.asp - 17k Summary: The era of Siebel's uncontested supremacy in the CRM market seems to be nearing the end. However, Siebel's idea of its Universal Application Network seems innovative and should help the needs of the higher-end of the market, whose paramount concern have been the enormous costs of integration and the gen

systemfabrik Releases an EAI Product?

by M. Reed ... 4.0 introduces an open, enterprise wide Information Infrastructure Architecture based on the ... A complete EAI solution requires a middleware component (ie, hooks ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/02/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_02_18_00_1.asp - 5k Summary: With the announcement of the immediate availability of Warehouse Workbench 4.0 (WWB), systemfabrik, originally an Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) vendor, is attempting to move into the EAI space. Whether the product can actually accomplish EAI remains to be seen.

Mercator Software Extends EAI Solutions for Insurance with XML

by M. Reed ... ÿþMercator Software Extends EAI Solutions for Insurance with XML M ... new capabilities allow customers to deploy a single software architecture for integration ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/04/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_04_21_00_1.asp - 8k Summary: Mercator Software (which is changing its name from TSI International Software to reflect the name of its flagship product) has announced support within its “Integration Broker” products for both XML and EDI transactions based on the ACORD standard for the insurance industry.

IBI + IBM = EAI

by M. Reed ... ÿþIBI + IBM = EAI M. Reed - December 14, 2000: ... We are pleased to see Information Builders' support for the MQSI open node architecture.". ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/12/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_12_14_00_1.asp - 8k Summary: The latest entrant in the race to support IBM's MQSeries Integrator Version 2 is Information Builders (IBI) with its Middleware Technology Group's 'Enterprise Connector for MQSeries Integrator'. The product provides SQL access to over 80 different data sources, and should prove a good fit with MQSI. In

Besieged By The CRM Throne Aspirants, King Siebel Delivers 'The ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The enhancements worth pointing out are: A new Web-based architecture; A formalized product upgrade and enterprise application integration (EAI) strategy; ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2001/12/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_12_21_01_1.asp - 15k Summary: Will the long awaited Siebel 7 product release help the until recently undisputed CRM leader withstand the pressure from ERP giants – SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft?

Product Architecture for Product Endurance?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Also keep in mind that architecture will benefit only after products ... should also consider third-party enterprise application integration (EAI) particularly if ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/09/research_notes/TN_ER_PJ_09_30_05_1.asp - 16k Summary: Product architecture can ensure product scalability, endurance, and the incorporation of emerging technologies. Consequently, LANSA 2005 offers Web Application Modules (WAM), to give developers a shorter learning curve and lower development costs to produce browser-based commercial enterprise application