Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development</p> 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

Read this paper to learn three ways your company can get the most out of its contracts by ensuring that the agreements you enter into are low in risk and that contractual terms are being observed and met. 

The enterprise service bus (ESB) and what it does are still points of confusion and contention. Read this expert e-guide to find out why an ESB is indispensable to any application integration project. Also, find out how open source ESB options are changing the market and why this will matter to buyers. 

Effective negotiations and management of telecom contracts can have a measurable impact on a business’ financial performance. 

In this video, FuseSource engineer Claus Ibsen introduces Apache Camel, a lightweight integration framework that can help you go from enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) to production. Hear why popular open source projects and multple enterprise service bus (ESB) servers include Apache Camel in their distributions. 

<p>Support contracts are becoming crucial aspects of IT management as IT environments are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Examine the trends propelling the support services market, and discover the importance of continuing post-warranty support.</p> 

Read this case study to learn how BancVue utilized Sugar Professional to optimize their customer’s business models and extend the base model contract module for improved contract management. Continue reading to learn how BancVue is winning the war against the big banks with the help of Sugar Professional. 

This issue looks at two areas of pain, gain and risk in server virtualization: I/O bottlenecks and virtualizing email systems. 

This whitepaper outlines a five step process that enterprises can apply to their third-party application portfolio to gain visibility into their security state and make informed purchase, integration, deployment and maintenance decisions. 

This research from Freeform Dynamics, based on a survey of end users,  identifies the challenges faced by IT departments and suppliers on software licensing, and offers advice to organisations on dealing with software licensing. 

Economies of scale, flexibility and costreduction – cloud advocates have made sure that we are familiar with these potential benefits, even if we have yet to agree on an exact definition of cloud computing. But doubters argue that none of these benefits will actually be available unless some fundamental security issues can be overcome. 

Read this white paper to explore: the most common SAP integration challenges; a brief overview of SAP interfaces and integration points; various approaches for SAP integration; and architectural best practices for effective SAP integration.