Supply chains are messy. Prices rise abruptly, products or raw materials become unavailable, shipping and transport are overloaded, and competing vendors struggle for customers. Integrating ...

Vertical integration is a type of corporate structure wherein a company owns the various supply-chain stages for its product (s), from production to distribution to marketing and sales.

During the 1990s, companies bought packaged software solutions such as SAP, Oracle ERP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Siebel, Clarify, and so on. Although such packaged software solutions worked well ...

My first encounter with enterprise integration dates back to the early 2000s. Remember those days when Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) emerged as the antidote to the convoluted labyrinth of closely ...

Too many CIOs wire systems together and hope for value; real integration works when business goals, data and resilience come first. In my experience with large-scale enterprises, I have seen ...