Integration-as-a-Service breaks down the barriers to business system integration
Business System Integration is the process of moving and combining data across the information system. It typically consists of extracting data from different sources (databases, files, applications, Web Services, emails, etc.), applying transformations (join, lookup, deduplication, calculation, etc.) to this data and sending the resulting data to target systems.
Smart Selling recognised the emergence of cloud-based integration providers and the impact this would have on business systems. Most IT and business analysts have had lingering doubts about the true enterprise readiness of software as a service applications due to the barriers of integration to legacy systems.
Integration leaders like Talend, Boomi, and SnapLogic have changed the landscape of application integration – making it simple, robust, and cost effective to integrate best of breed applications into your core business or customer platform.
Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, leverages the open source model to make data integration available to all types of organizations, regardless of their size, level of expertise or budgetary constraints.
Boomi fundamentally changed the integration industry once again with the announcement of its on-demand integration technology today known as “AtomSphereSM,” the industry’s first integration platform-as-a-service. Built using pure SaaS technology, Atomsphere handles any combination of SaaS, cloud and on-premise application integration without the burden of installing and maintaining software or appliances.
If you would like more information about integration-as-a-service, why not have one of our integration experts contact you to discuss the possibilities and whether this fits your needs.