by Benoit Lheureux | August 23, 2012 | 2 Comments
In recent years the B2B market segment has been fairly active — see Update on The B2B Frenzy and IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce — And Ups the Ante on B2B. Activity tends to occur in waves, and the last few months have been very active: Liaison Acquired Hubspan — this week. Anyone following this provider [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | July 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
Yesterday I completed a call on the topic of EDI and B2B integration with a client and coincidentally also achieved a professional milestone: the client, La-Z-Boy Inc. (named with permission — thank you!), was the 1,000th Gartner client I’ve served Rather than mark the event by ringing a bell, introducing live-band music and showering our [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | March 13, 2012 | Comments Off
When is enough, enough? Yesterday I published research that enumerates and describes nine different integration brokerage (IB) solution patterns — Integration Brokerage Solution Patterns Address Many Integration Problems (subscription required). For those not familiar with the term “integration brokerage”, its a form of IT outsourcing for integration project implementation and management — think: Managed Services [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | June 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
July 19th update — updated below with reference to 2nd of two CSB case studies, on Mohawk – bjl June 28th update — updated below with reference to 1st of two CSB case studies, just published — bjl ————————————————— Original post follows: I’ve just returned to the US from London where we held our annual Application [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
I have been having more discussions with clients lately about integrating SaaS functionality from multiple providers. One recently described integrating five different SaaS applications. Many IT-savvy clients leverage a combination of on-premise or cloud-based integration technology to implement the solution themselves (e.g., using Boomi, IBM, Informatica, iWay, Jitterbit, Microsoft, Pervasive, WebSphere, Tibco, etc.). Although these [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | January 10, 2011 | 4 Comments
In the run-up to Year-End 2010 my colleagues and I published our annual 2011 Predicts reports, featuring a wide range of predictions related to integration, B2B and cloud computing. These Predicts 2011 Reports include (subscription required): Predicts 2011: Cloud Computing Is Still at the Peak of Inflated Expectations Predicts 2011: Application Integration: A Nimble Veteran [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | June 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
This morning I depart for London to present at our Gartner SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit next week. Its the first time I’m leaving my wife and our now 10-week old Tiger Twins, Oliver and Charlotte, behind … … for a business trip. I’ve just come out of extended paternity leave and its [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | May 24, 2010 | 7 Comments
Just on the heals of IBM acquiring Cast Iron Systems a few weeks ago, today IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Commerce for $1.4b in cash. Adding to other recent events such as GXS acquiring Inovis this once again ups the ante on B2B. Gartner’s formal consolidated response to the Cast Iron acquisition will [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | March 1, 2010 | 6 Comments
Three events last week connected some dots on Cloud APIs for integration as a service: My peer review of Eric Knipp‘s upcoming case study on New York Time’s Open WOA A client specifically asked me — “do any B2B integration vendors offer Cloud API’s?” I spoke with the folks at ECGridOS — who offer a [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | January 13, 2010 | 4 Comments
Yesterday Liaison — a vendor I recently evaluated for our recent update to the Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers (login required) announced that it is acquiring ADX — another B2B vendor I’ve followed for years. While this particular commercial transaction was not by itself a huge deal (it does incrementally strengthen and grows Liaison’s [...]
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