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Getting on Board the Enterprise Service Bus.

The article discusses trends in business application integrations. Businesses are focusing on service-orientated architectures (SOA) and are beginning to use an approach known as the enterprise service bus (ESB). ESB is the connection piece that holds SOA together and enables communication between W...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 15 - 18
Main Author: Ortiz Jr., Sixto
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Apr2007
Subjects:
Computer buses
Computer architecture
Systems engineering
Business digital resources
Office information systems
Application software
Electronic data interchange
Technological innovations & economics
Digital communications
Computer network architectures
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses trends in business application integrations. Businesses are focusing on service-orientated architectures (SOA) and are beginning to use an approach known as the enterprise service bus (ESB). ESB is the connection piece that holds SOA together and enables communication between Web-based enterprise applications. Analysts say learning to use an ESB takes time, so corporations don't always see a return on their investment for the first few projects. Large organizations in the finance and telecommunications fields have been the first to implement ESB.