System Integration Trends Blog

System Integration Trends

Introduction

The blog is to articulate the System Integration practice trends, in accordance System

Integration is observed to be technical solution for building extended Enterprise Ecosystems,

relevant to the inspirations of Business Strategies, venturing into unchartered territories. It

further implies that, there is negligible gap or no gap between the business and technology

strategies anymore. Technically at underlying level, System Integration is now, widely used to

build and manage services that provide tangible benefits and outcomes in areas such as mobile

applications, APIfication, Analytics & cloud. The skill for usage of new generation tools and

products provided by Integration platform vendors for realizing the digital industrial economy is

to be pursued aggressively. This shift is relieved to be present trend in Enterprise System

Integration services competency.

New Challenges of System Integration solutions in year -2015

The Integration solutions market in year -2015 pushes System Integrators with new challenges.

It is call now for realizing digital industrial economy through Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud

(SMAC) expansions within Enterprise Ecosystems. This is better sustainable, having API

infrastructure, over Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Further for large scale Enterprises,

combination of cloud infrastructure is widely suggested by experts. With the cloud infrastructure

integrations driven into Enterprise Ecosystems, the enterprises will gain high availability,

scalability of high order easily with most of risk transferred to cloud companies. This will

become de-facto standard architecturally in future and the best model that enterprises can

have, while realizing complex expandable enterprise ecosystems. The sketch, of the System

Integration landscape given below -

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Additional System Integration challenges

The additional System Integration challenges to be addressed will include:

1. Integrations applying the APIfication Paradigms.

2. Integrating Business Process Management (BPM), Complex Event Processing (CEP),

Rule Engines, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Business Analytics Monitor (BAM),

Identity Services, Messaging products and other sub-systems/tools required for

System Integration Platform.

3. Integration in general for realizing Subscription model and pricing of services.

4. Integrations specialization using specific connectors should be established

(Ex: SAP, Sales Force, Mainframes, Share Point)

5. Integrations to realize the management & monitoring features in totality for

ecosystem.

6. Integrations to facilitate deployments on a multi-tenant cloud & elastic cloud

infrastructure.

Value Proposition of System Integration @ SPAN

SPAN proposition for the challenges is through – Integration Center of Excellence, has dedicated

scarce resources to practice in combining integration skills, resources and processes under

Architecture Center of Excellence (ACE Group). The following are its current objectives:

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Service enabling each tool/product’s key abilities which are narrowly focused on solving

particular problem of enterprise and use them to build a pre-configured system

integration platform.

Reduce project delivery times and development costs through business accelerators built

as System Integration Solutions.

Decreasing duplication of integration related effort across the enterprise.

Lower total technology cost of ownership by leveraging technology investments across

multiple projects

The R&D on SOA software and WSo2 had been the major focus and progress had been

incredible, much of capabilities of open source tools being integrated to form a platform. Effort

had been made to speak to customers and technology partners to build more capabilities

quicker. Simultaneously, thrust is emphasized on building business accelerators to show case

demos of System Integration technologies to the prospects. The major advantage is clients can

now roll in/roll out expansion of enterprise eco-systems.

Conclusion

Extending System Integration services built with pre-integrated platform, will give the needful

advantage for Modern System Integrators. The existing knowledge in creating service endpoints

using various Webservice technologies and the experience of modernizing legacy systems will

provide best advantage among other competitive System Integrators, when deployments of

demonstrators/ business accelerators are showcased.

Bibliography

Reference Books

Open Source SOA – Jeff Davis

Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise – Dino Esposito

Web sites

http://synapse.apache.org/

http://www.soasoftware.com

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