The Brave New World Of Middleware 5

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 5

Part 5: Redesigning the Modern Interface Engine As HIMSS is right around the corner, I’m growing increasingly excited to showcase Iguana v5: our redesign of the modern interface engine. In previous posts in this blog series, I’ve explored the headaches faced by integration engineers, the complexities in the economics of integration and the failed promise […]

February 17, 2011 More

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 4

Part 4: The failed promise of graphical mapping In the first post of this blog series, Re-thinking Integration, I explained how I have spent a great deal of time examining my assumptions about what middleware needs to deliver. At the forefront of my original assumptions was my belief that the majority of mapping could be […]

February 15, 2011 More

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 3

Part 3: The Integration Engineer An old friend and customer of mine once told me that the two most important tools in his job as an integration engineer were Iguana and his phone but not in that order. The majority of his time was spent talking to his customers to determine the requirements needed to […]

February 9, 2011 More

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 2

Part 2: It’s all about economics There is an old joke I enjoy, that I think has a lot of relevance to software. There was a guy who always cut his pot roast in half before cooking it. His wife was curious as to why he always did it that way. He replied that this […]

February 3, 2011 More

The Brave New World of Middleware – Part 1

Part 1: Re-thinking Integration There is a great deal of excitement around the offices of iNTERFACEWARE these days and I wanted to personally reach out to you and explain what all the buzz is about. Over the past few years, I have invested a great deal of time and energy into re-thinking my assumptions about […]

February 3, 2011 More