What Does Integration Middleware Mean?

Techopedia Explains Integration Middleware

  • Cloud Integration: Integrates with and also between the cloud services, cloud-based applications (SaaS), private clouds, trade hubs and other typical cloud resources through Web services and standard B2B communication strategies (FTP, AS2, etc.)

  • B2B Integration: Integrates customer, provider and various alternative partner interfaces with various data resources and company-managed applications

  • Application Integration (A2A): Integrates various company-managed applications together, including cloud-based and remote systems

  • Data Integration: Integrates business data resources, such as databases and files, over business and operational intelligence systems

  • Enterprise service buses (ESBs)

  • Transaction processing (TP) monitors

  • Distributed computing environment (DCE)

  • Remote procedure call (RPC) systems

  • Object request brokers (ORBs)

  • Message passing

  • Database access systems