Application Development > Enterprise Application Integration

Project managers usually tend to focus on the methodology for executing the technical part of the project. However, a good understanding of a practical SOA landscape and its associated challenges can help a technical PM make the SOA adoption on technology projects run even smoother.

A wide variety of technology solutions and services are available to help organizations implement, customize and improve their project portfolio management processes. Here is our August roundup of recent updates and announcements from CA, Daptiv, Innotas, Oracle Primavera, Planview, PowerSteering, Rally and others.

Just as you were getting comfortable with EAI, IDI comes along and turns everything on its head. Learn just how IDI is making its presence felt in the data and application integration arena.

A wide variety of technology solutions and services are available to help organizations implement, customize and improve their project portfolio management processes. Here is our April roundup of recent announcements from Daptiv, HP, Oracle, Planview and PowerSteering.

What are the business drivers for enterprise project portfolio management, what are the consolidation challenges and what is the solution?

Rally Software has extended its Agile ALM platform to meet the needs of global organizations with customization options, full traceability with build and source code, and corporate dashboards to create a single source of record for progress and quality.

Need help with project recovery? A whole new skill set and strategy is needed to recover an IT project from free fall. Here we provide practical recovery pointers on four project areas for failing IT projects, with a focus on software development for business applications.

When newer firms go into cloud computing, they have a distinct advantage over established organizations. Organizations that have IT history, however, are more likely to have legacy systems to support--making their integration of cloud computing a much greater challenge.

A new survey finds that more software development professionals and executives see IT budgets increasing, but project scope and estimation are still concerns.

Here’s our February 2011 roundup of the latest technology solutions for project leaders, teams and organizations, including social-based requirements management … security-focused PPM … enterprise-level Agile integration … software lifecycle management … and more.

As Agile evolves beyond software development, its people-centric mandate is a natural ally to the social technology revolution transforming today’s enterprises. Here, a leading strategist in the social business landscape shares his thoughts on the interplay of these two movements, including how Kanban and DevOps fit.

It's easy to get lost in the Cloud if you are unsure who the major players are out there. This overview will examine several Cloud frameworks and identify the who's who of the big-league Cloud riders.

Enterprise application integration has become a key component of current B2B integration efforts, enabling companies to utilize their existing systems to conduct inter-enterprise transactions. An order initiated in one company's SAP enterprise resource planning system can automatically generate an increase in the production levels managed by a supplier's supply chain system.

Listen up, IT project managers: If you've been casually following the UC market, get on the stick pronto, and find out what's going on. If you don't, your livelihood could be seriously affected.

Web services offer a lean way to integrate and share data between applications. Think of Web services as a cheaper alternative to enterprise application integration.

Microsoft hopes a beta release feature pack that integrates Project Server and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server will bridge project managers, software developers and different methodologies by simplifying data exchange.

Enterprise application integration is inherently risky business. Learn how to identify risks and put in place a prevention strategy.

With an integrated application lifecycle management solution, Rally Software addresses the challenges of transitioning to enterprise agile software development, with an emphasis on engaging communities of users and stakeholders.

New Business Intelligence offering from Oracle features role-based intelligence to track project performance.

Here’s our July 2009 roundup of the latest technology solutions, services and training for project management professionals, including configurable project collaboration … single-application Scrum development … simplified earned value management … test case management … and more.

Gartner’s new report on the state of the PPM market evaluates 30 technology providers and identifies important trends, including the infiltration of the SaaS deployment model and increasing support of Agile.

The cloud is moving in and taking over. What does this mean for the typical project manager? And as importantly, what does this mean for the organization considering moving its projects into the cloud? Clearly there are some benefits, but there are also some potential challenges. In this column, we examine both sides of the issue in an effort to bring some clarity to project management in the cloud.

If you want detailed information on Enterprise Application Integration, see my column All Together Now: Enterprise Application Integration. Also, here is a list of some of the vendor sites you may want to take a look at.

Agile vendors have done a good job providing project managers and product owners with planning and tracking tools. But the primary creators of project deliverables are software developers, and they have consistently been an afterthought. To scale across the enterprise, Agile work processes must embrace the individual contributors doing the actual work.

Why would a hardware manufacturer like HP spend a reported $18 BILLION on a consultancy like PWC? It actually makes a lot of sense when you look at the big picture.

It's time for some observations and lessons learned from the acquired perspective of a company integration. For those of you who find yourselves managing integration projects--whether from the buyer’s perspective or the acquired company--hopefully some valuable lessons can be taken from this writer's experience.

Want customers to really stick by you? Use enterprise application integration to tie together all of your business intelligence and deliver the ultimate in customer personalization.

CA Technologies recently introduced a new version of its PPM solution. Among the updates is the integration of Chatter, a collaboration application from Salesforce.com.

As businesses evolve, so do IT departments. One way to make sure that technology and business interests are aligned is through program management.

Here’s our December 2010 roundup of the latest technology solutions and services for project leaders, teams and organizations, including an application to leverage SharePoint … Agile offerings for distributed environments and portfolio-level planning … mobile capabilities for PPM … a free project management tool for small teams ... and more.

You wouldn't build a skyscraper without the right structural framework. Likewise, developing applications and systems means knowing the frameworks to build on.

Cloud computing offers cost savings, flexibility and speed of deployment that can be very tempting to all kinds of IT organizations, but don't forget about the risks inherent in turning over control of your data in the age of IT Governance and SOX compliance.

As businesses enter the "new normal" era of economic uncertainty, program and portfolio management offices that remain tactically and administratively-focused will struggle. Successful PMOs in 2012 will move towards a strageic, holistic view that embraces agile methods and increases visibility for executives.

CollabNet updates its TeamForge platform and ScrumWorks project management application, focusing on scaling agile to the enterprise through flexible reporting, ease of use and other enhancements.