Current Technologies

Most of the integration goals that I have discussed can be addressed by current technologies. However, there are some serious limitations with these technologies that continue to make life difficult for developers. Just to clarify this point, developers may be up to taking on challenging projects, but in the past these projects typically have had a high risk factor and therefore had a tendency to fail. To better understand the risks, let's take a look at some of the most popular methods of data exchange in the IT world today.

Data Format

In the past, companies have struggled to exchange data because of the differences in data format preferences. Few tools were available to automate the translation of different formats, and ...

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