Data Integration News & Articles

Data integration is all relative. With Equivio's announcement of a new integrated version of its near-duplicates and email threads technology within kCura's review platform, Relativity, it really is.

Last we spoke about Kapow Software, it introduced Kapow Katalyst as the future of data integration. Today, it introduced Kapow Mobile Katalyst, an integration platform that can enable and deploy business applications in a mobile environment. If history repeats itself, we may be looking at the future of mobile engagement.

As we round out 2010 and look towards 2011 for the year’s major technology investments, one thing is clear: mobile adoption is exploding. According to a Morgan Stanley research study, in the next two years, sales of smartphones will overtake PC sales -- including both desktops and notebooks (Morgan Stanley, “Ten Questions Internet Execs Should Ask & Answer,” November 16, 2010). With more than 300,000 apps available on Apple’s App Store, the ubiquity of smartphones, apps, and easy, convenient, mobile experiences are putting pressure on IT to mobile enable B2C and B2E applications to facilitate increased employee efficiency and keep up with consumer demand for mobile access to B2C applications.

Most of you know Kapow Software (news, site) as a provider of data integration and content migration solutions. And that's exactly what they do. But yesterday the vendor announced a new version of their data integration platform. One they say will change the way to you think about content integration. One that could make your next project a lot easier.

SnapLogic (news, site) becomes the latest company to create its own little store front on the burgeoning Web shopping mall to make the data transformation features for its DataFlow solution easier to buy.

SnapLogic (news, site) has extended its data integration platform, the SnapLogic DataFlow Server to support Java, opening the SnapStore to the Java Developer Community.

New Apatar Connector was recently released to aid those struggling with integration of open source suite SugarCRM with third-party applications, databases, flat files, other CRM/ERP applications and Web 2.0 destinations.

Apatar claims to be able to do it all “without coding.”

Remember those guys who figured out how to hack Vista to allow you to run your SharePoint environment directly on the desktop and not within a vm? Well they are hanging out at Microsoft TECH-ED NORTH AMERICA 2008 this week and they have a product announcement that may interest many SharePoint developers.

It’s called Bamboo MashPoint and it’s a free data integration platform for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Note that important point — it’s for WSS3.0 which means you can start developing and integration enterprise applications into WSS without the need of MOSS and the Business Data Catalog.