Integration

Contributed by Francis Miers, director at software lifecycle specialist, Automation Consultants Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is now a major fixture in many organisations’ IT. The largest IaaS provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has gone from launch in 2006 to revenues of $18 billion in 2017. AWS is the market…

Talend provides end-to-end data and application integration platforms with literally hundreds of connectors and a graphical drag-and-drop user interface. This is sufficiently easy to use that business users will be able to carry out relevant operations without assistance. The platform caters for big data, cloud data and applications, on-premises data…

Stream processing and analytics is gaining momentum as businesses gear up for real-time processing of streaming data – typically from devices and sensors, but also other sources such as financial data and news. Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to…

Podbox synchronises data between different applications. Once your applications are known to Podbox (through a simple setup) it automatically synchronises data every few minutes – effectively putting an end to copy and paste. As a cloud application it means there is no installation or setting up, and at the current…

Data Integration Tools 2015 The data integration tools listed here are broken down into platforms that are part of a larger suite of products, platforms that are independent and those that are open source. Some products are listed in their open source community editions and the enhanced, supported editions. Data Integration…

Zementis provides a platform for the deployment of predictive models in PMML format (Predictive Model Markup Language). Big data (Hadoop) and other database platforms are supported. Data scientists using R can translate their models into PMML, which can then be deployed in a production environment using Zementis platforms. Many of…