Forrester Research conducted briefings and demonstration reviews with five commercial and four open source enterprise service bus (ESB) product vendors and evaluated their capabilities in each of the five following functional categories: architecture, connection, mediation, orchestration, and change and control. 

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. 

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. 

Forrester Research's 2011 Q2 Wave Report named FuseSource's enterprise service bus (ESB) offering Active MQ as its highest ranked open source ESB solution and placed it in the "Leader" category along with large, established vendors. View this webcast to get an overview and product demo of Active MQ. 

In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented. 

If you are thinking of using cloud services brokerage (CSB), then read this case study on Mohawk Fine Papers to learn how they found a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based backbone to support interoperability between its internal and external tools. 

Read this white paper for an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business conditions in real time, providing continuous visibility-in short, an instantly responsive enterprise. 

As an alternative to big vendor messaging solutions, open source software presents an entirely different cost model and more flexibility in deployment options that suit the needs of retail perfectly. Read this paper to learn more about open source software and why it is the optimal approach to integrated messaging for large retail enterprises. 

This case study provides details of real-world best practices in IT consolidation to turn a data center from a burdensome cost center to a strategic asset with robust security, enhanced business continuity and reduced operating expenses. 

This white paper discusses an exclusive survey where CFOs weighed in on their perceptions and understanding of cloud computing. Read more about what this CFO survey reveals about the potential economic and efficiency benefits of the cloud. 

Quocirca looks at the case for mobile printing in the enterprise and suggests best practices for a mobile print strategy. 

This expert guide explains some of the prominent differences between Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and hosted ERP systems including cost, benefits, and risks of both. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine exclusive research into the investment priorities of UK IT decision-makers, which shows virtualisation, Windows 7 and security as the top areas for spending this year. We analyse the changing nature of database architecture; and the BBC’s Chief Technology Officer talks about IT plans for the broadcaster.