Lean Middleware David A. Maluf, David G. Bell, and Naveen Ashish   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Enterprise Information Integration (Industrial) Abstract This paper describes an approach to achieving data integration across multiple sources in an enterprise, in a manner that does not require heavy investment in database and middleware maintenance. This "lean" approach to integration leads to cost-effectiveness and scalability of data integration in the enterprise. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery