Making Integration Pervasive: The Rise of Cloud Integration Platforms
As more applications and data sources move to the cloud, integration vendors are following suit. More cloud-based integration solutions combine data and application integration functionality into a single platform that supports a wide range of integration scenarios, and align better with business needs. These solutions often include much-needed data management services, such as data quality and data preparation.
Cloud integration platforms support data flows between multiple cloud applications as well as between cloud and on-premises systems. Many are designed for ease-of-use so that a variety of business users as well as IT developers can create data integration flows. This report assesses the current state of cloud integration and the range of capabilities available from different vendors as well as benefits, challenges and use cases related to cloud integration solutions.
This report is geared to technical professionals associated with data integration tasks. These include IT managers, data architects, ETL developers, application developers, data analysts, systems integrators, third-party consultants, and managed services providers.
It is also geared to business professionals who manage or oversee business users or analysts who consume the output of integration processes or participate in the creation of integration flows (i.e., “citizen integrators”).