Archive for the 'Integration Vendors' Category


IBM Interchange: an example of not-so-productive EAI tool

My last post suggested that the integration tools tend to offer poor development support. This article takes a look at IBM’s Interchange version 4.3 (ICS 4.3), a popular EAI tool, and analyses it’ development toolset.
The Good Stuff: Broker Infrastructure
As Value across the integration stack suggests, generally the infrastructure part […]

EAI Convergence: IBM WBI & TIBCO

This paper briefly compares Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) suites from two leading vendors: IBM and TIBCO. This comparison leads to an observation that the products in the EAI space converge; the products on the lower levels become commoditized while the innovation concentrates on the higher stack levels. Similarities extend beyond the […]