<p>When it comes to traditional enterprise applications the nature of the APIs being used doesn't change all that often. For that reason developers of enterprise applications tend to prefer work at a higher level of abstraction that relies on connectors rather than lower level APIs to reduce the complexity associated with building composite applications in the enterprise.</p><p>What is changing rapidly is the types of devices being used and the amount of data being accessed at any one time. The simultaneously rise of mobile computing and Big Data are changing both the amount of latency that can be tolerated when accessing remote data along with the amount of data that needs to accessed at any given time.</p><p>Img Credit: Magic Software Enterprises</p><p>To address that particular issue Magic Software Enterprises now offers an in-memory data grid capability to its Magic xpi Integration Platform in addition to adding connectors for SugarCRM, Sage ERP and SYSPRO applications. In total, the Magic xpi Integration Platform now supports more than 60 application connectors, including connectors for Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World, SAP, IBM Lotus Notes. Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft SharePoint and Salesforce.</p><p><a href="http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/11/06/magic-software-enterprises-pushes-data-integration-into-memory/">Keep reading...</a></p>