Technology leaders in midsize businesses have a handful of integration approaches to choose from: wrestle with sophisticated enterprise application integration (EAI) tools, write custom code, or use the simple and rapid approach of pre-packaged integrations from WebSphere Cast Iron. 

In this 10-minute software demo, learn how WebSphere Cast Iron allows you to easily integrate cloud (both public and private) and on-premise applications in real-time using a "no-coding" approach. 

This brief paper outlines a solution that seamlessly synchronizes your customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) data to grant you timely access to the information you need to make pivotal and proper business decisions. 

This paper focuses on re-defining the job of project manager to better fit the self-managed team environment, one of the core Agile principles. Special emphasis is placed on the shift to servant leadership, with its focus on facilitation and collaboration 

In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

The upsurge in cloud computing presents development teams with challenges that may require them to rethink  established ways of building applications. Read this e-book, which discusses languages for cloud computing, distributed caching, scaling horizontally, and changing data architectures midcloud, for further discussion of these issues. 

This paper examines the primary data threats that currently concern chief security officers (CSOs) and IT security management within enterprises, and recommends best-practice techniques to minimize and overcome risks to data security. These best practices have been successfully implemented and deployed in organizations. 

The telecommunications industry was already in a redefining shift in consumer preferences, business models and infrastructure development prior to the  economic crisis. Faced with challenges in declining revenues, a maturing mobile industry and increased competition from new entrants, the industry finds itself in dire need of new models for growth. 

In today's challenging economy, cutting costs while achieving more is critical to success. Discover how to easily connect your cloud-based applications with each other and with your on-premise applications – in just days, without burdening specialist resources or resorting to custom programming. 

In one neat package, the Web Platform Installer gives you the frameworks, web server, database, tools and applications you need to quickly build and run Web applications and solutions on Windows. 

This tutorial demonstrates how you can easily connect Microsoft Visual Studio to an Oracle 11g server by using the Progress DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET in conjunction with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This set up lets you fully exploit the power of MS’s ADO.NET Entity Data Framework when working with Oracle without needing to write any code.