esb extinction: why on-premise integration platforms are an endangered specie

ESB Extinction

Why On-Premise Integration Platforms Are an Endangered Specie

“Cloud Computing”

1996

“Cloud Computing”

1999

Salesforcelaunched

1996

“Cloud Computing”

“ESB”

On-Premise Integration Middleware

1999

Salesforcelaunched

1996 2002

“Cloud Computing”

“ESB”

On-Premise Integration Middleware

20111999

Salesforcelaunched

1996 2002

“iPaaS”

Cloud-based Integration Middleware

“Cloud Computing”

“ESB”

On-Premise Integration Middleware

Cloud!

Amazon launches EC2

20111999

Salesforcelaunched

1996 2002 2006

“iPaaS”

Cloud-based Integration Middleware

Advantages of Cloud Services Over Traditional Software

• Subscription model easier to consume (although TCO may be similar)

• Fast set up – no infrastructure, no deployment, minimal configuration

• High ease of use – most Cloud services are self service

• Less time and financial investment – easier to replace if it doesn’t work

Five Reasons iPaaS will be more relevant than ESB

1. Security in the Cloud is improving

2. Endpoints are migrating

3. Endpoints are proliferating

4. Everything needs an API

5. Agile integration is becoming vital

#1: Security in the Cloud is Improving

High profile hacks and government snoopinghave created demand for better security in Cloud.

#1: Security in the Cloud is Improving

Mega were first to offer end-to-end encryptionin file sync & share category.

#1: Security in the Cloud is Improving

IBM patented a technique around homomorphicencryption in Jan 2014.

Pre-Cloud Apps lived on the ground.

#2: Endpoints are Migrating

Today, an increasing number of apps are moving to the Cloud.

Pre-Cloud Apps lived on the ground.

#2: Endpoints are Migrating

Today, an increasing number of apps are moving to the Cloud.

In the future, we’ll run very little on the ground.

Pre-Cloud Apps lived on the ground.

#2: Endpoints are Migrating

No serious software vendor is ignoring Cloud.

ERP is possibly the most Cloud-resistant category in software yet these vendors have all built Cloud-based ERP.

Endpoint Migration#3: Endpoints are Proliferating

0.9bn things in 20091http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2636073, Dec 2013

Massive Proliferation:

26bn things in 20201

Endpoint Migration#3: Endpoints are Proliferating

In IoT, Things will route home across the Internet.

iPaaS offers:

• High availability

• Elasticity

#3: Endpoints are Proliferating

Horex Superbike is an IoT Thing!

• Bad weather alerts

• Engine status

• Maintenance information

• Wheel spin warning

• Curve lean angle

#4: API’s for Services and Software

API’s provide a structured way to engage with a product or system and make it possible to consume data from afar.

Virtually all modern API’s are web API’s so middleware no longer needs to sit next to its endpoints. ESB no longer has this advantage over iPaaS.

#4: API’s for Enterprise

Enterprise API’s provide a wrapper around an organisations’ digital assets.

Exposing an Enterprise API requires abstraction of multiple underlying systems. That layer is called API Management –a capability that is native to almost all iPaaS platforms.

Emily Bell, the Guardian News & Media director of digital content, described Open Platform as a "new chapter in our history and a new foundation for the future of our journalism".

Open Platform allows Guardian content "to be woven into the fabric of the internet" as people outside the organisation saw the value of adding Guardian content to their projects.

#4: API’s for Enterprise

#5: Agile Integration is Becoming Vital

The Agile Enterprise makes decisions and executes on them quickly.

Those decisions filter down to systems and services so it’s crucial that the integration layer can keep pace.

#5: Agile Integration is Becoming Vital

iPaaS supports Agile Enterprise by:

• Reducing time to implement - no hand coding

• Providing a single platform - no fragmented toolsets

• Built-in capability for connecting across networks – no VPN’s, file transfers

• Ease of iteration – no onerous “SDLC”

ThankYou!

Daniel ChilcottManaging Directordaniel@flowgear.net@DanielChilcott@Flowgear

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