Received: 11 September 2018 Revised: 10 November 2018 Accepted: 14 November 2018 DOI: 10.1002/spe.2670 SURVEY PAPER Survey on the run-time systems of enterprise application integration platforms focusing on performance Daniela L. Freire Rafael Z. Frantz Fabricia Roos-Frantz Sandro Sawicki Department of Exact Sciences and Engineering, Unijuí University, Ijuí-RS, Summary Brazil Companies are taking advantage of cloud computing to upgrade their business Correspondence processes. Cloud computing requires interaction with many kinds of applica- Rafael Z. Frantz, Department of Exact tions, so it is necessary to improve the performance of software tools that allow Sciences and Engineering, Unijuí keeping information on all these applications consistent and synchronised. Inte- University, Ijuí-RS 98700-000, Brazil. Email:
[email protected] gration platforms are specialised software tools that provide support to design, implement, run, and monitor integration solutions, which aim to orchestrate a Funding information Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de set of applications so as to promote compatibility among their data or to develop Pessoal de Nível Superior, Grant/Award new functionality on top of the current ones. The run-time system is the part Number: 73318345415 and of the integration platform responsible for running the integration solutions, 88881.119518/2016-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio which makes its performance the uttermost important issue. The contribution Grande do Sul, Grant/Award Number: of this article is two-fold: a framework and an evaluation of integration plat- 17/2551-0001206-2 forms. The former is a framework composed of ten properties grouped into two dimensions to evaluate the run-time systems focusing on performance.