Enterprise Integration for Beginners

In my previous post  , I have discussed about the facts you need to consider when selecting an integration solution for your enterprise IT infrastructure. I didn't provide any clue on what is the best vendor you can select since that depends on your requirements and budget and many other reasons. In this post, I will do a comparison between several open source and proprietary solutions and differentiate WSO2 ESB (my employer) features with them. Proprietary ESB  Pros  Suite of solutions included and work smoothly with each other (eg: CEP, BPEL, MB, Registry) Powerful and stable tooling and monitoring capabilities Excellent support for price Cons High price, High complexity Licensing and non-transparent pricing model Different components may come from different code bases acquired through different companies Heavy products Installation may need consultants and take more time Open source ESB Pros Simple installation and intuitive tooling Some ve

If you are an IT architect responsible for designing your enterprise IT system, you may have already experienced this topic. Modern IT systems consists of so many different systems developed by different vendors with different technology stacks. Even though those are developed independently, those systems should interact with each other to provide a seamless business experience to your stake holders. This is where the challenge of integration comes into the picture. Integrating heterogenous systems is a very complex task and you need to consider so many things before choosing a proper solution. With this blog post, I am going to discuss about the things which you need to consider when choosing an integration solution for your enterprise. I have grabbed some ideas from the following blog post[1] which also describes a similar topic. [1]  http://www.infoq.com/articles/ESB-Integration Mainly, there are 2 streams of product categories available in the market. Open source software