Enterprise Integration for Beginners

History of Enterprise Integration The history of enterprise integration goes back to early computer era where we had computers only in large enterprises. The early requirements came from the concept of Material Requirement Planning (MRP) where it requires a system to plan and control production and material flows. With the growth of the businesses and the interactions among different 3rd party organizations, MRP has been evolved into an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems where they are responsible for much more functionalities to bridge the different departments of the enterprise like accounting, finance, engineering, product management and many more. Proprietary ERP solutions were dealing with so many complex use cases and failed really big in some cases. With these lessons, people realized that there should be a better to way to build the enterprise IT infrastructure beyond the ERP systems. Integration and SOA Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) comes into the...

It's time to rethink about your enterprise IT eco system. Technology space is going through a period of major revamp and whether you accept it or not, it is changing the way people do business. You may be a software architect of a multi billion enterprise or the only software engineer of a small startup organization which is trying to figure their way out in the business world. It is essential to know about the direction of the technology space and make your moves accordingly. At the 33000 feet, enterprises throughout the world are moving (most of them are already moved) towards digital technology. You may have already brought several third party systems in to your IT eco system and they are functioning well within your requirements. All is running well and your organization is profitable.  All is well. Why bother about these hypes? Let me tell you one thing. The world of business is moving so fast that a billion dollar company today will become an organization with a debt on t...

If you are a person who is in the enterprise IT domain, there is a more chance that you may have heard the term "mircoservices". In your organization, there will be many people talking about this and you may already have read lot of material on this term. First of all, it is a great idea and if you can use those concepts in your enterprise, that is pretty good. So then, what is this topic all about? Let me explain a bit about the topic and the message I want to spread. If you are an old enough IT professional, you may have gone through the hype of SOA and might have been adopted that in your enterprise. After spending millions of dollars and years of engineering time, now you have a solid SOA adoption and everything is running well (not perfect). As you know, technology industry does not allow you to settle down. It does not care about your money or time, it will keep on throwing some new concepts and jargons in to the picture. Micro services is that kind of thing which...