Nimble Technology

Service-Oriented Integration

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ January 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Connecting systems both within the enterprise and with suppliers, partners, and customers is of critical importance to today’s enterprise. However, integration remains complex, expensive, and risky. While Web Services won’t be the magic bullet that immediately solves these problems, they enable a new approach to integration. Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) leverages open standards, loose coupling, and dynamic description and discovery capabilities of Web Services to reduce the complexity, cost, and risk of integration. This report identifies the key aspects of SOI, solutions for implementing SOI, ROI metrics, and critical challenges.

Service-Oriented Integration

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ June 10, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Connecting systems both within the enterprise and with suppliers, partners, and customers is of critical importance to today’s enterprise. However, integration remains complex, expensive, and risky. While Web Services won’t be the magic bullet that immediately solves these problems, they enable a new approach to integration. Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) leverages open standards, loose coupling, and dynamic description and discovery capabilities of Web Services to reduce the complexity, cost, and risk of integration. This report identifies the key aspects of SOI, solutions for implementing SOI, ROI metrics, and critical challenges.

ZapNote: Xaware

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ January 7, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Efforts to "XML enable" the enterprise will be slowed by efforts to extract and manipulate these data sources. In addition, there has been a long sought-after goal of aggregating data from disparate data sources and providing a single interface for querying and retrieval of results. XAware applies an XML front-end to legacy data and thus abstracts interface and application integration requirements with end sources of data.

ZapNote: Nimble Technology

By Ronald Schmelzer ⋅ December 24, 2001 ⋅ Post a comment

Nimble has released the Nimble Integration Suite, which is aimed at solving the problem of using single queries to access multiple data stores and return the result in a single, manageable result using and XML-based mediated view of information. This solution provides an interesting approach that solves Enterprise and data integration challenges.