When a customer is actively waiting for a response from your Web server, the time available to integrate the required information dramatically compresses. The result is that your application development staff must integrate information from multiple sources in real time, or at least near real. The Application Integration Solution Database technologies, especially enterprise middleware products, provide an effective solution to integrate the applications required for your customer- centric Web portal. GartnerGroup defines middleware as runtime software that enables application-level interactions among programs in a distributed environment. As this definition suggests, you can leverage enterprise middleware products across your organization to support mission-critical applications.
Database gateways help programs read and write to remote databases or files.
They also provide for the translation between two or more protocols. Application superservices provide an API as a common service that replaces or masks other existing APIs. These products usually operate across two or more operating systems, transaction processing monitors, database management systems, application servers, and networking layers. Integration brokers help you manage interactions among application systems. This type of functionality provides tremendous value as we aggregate data from our many hotels.