Recieve full advantages of a cloud-based environment and full control of on-prem API solutions, in hybrid Integration (SOA) & API management archeticture (Microservices)
What’s your integration and API management strategy? Traditional on-premises integration platforms provide a high degree of control while new integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) solutions offer ease of use. Which is better for you?
Enter a third option: the blend, a hybrid integration approach
You can:
Let this short decision guide start you on the right path towards your future integration solution. You’ll also see why API management is a key consideration since APIs are the connectors in the new Internet of Things world.
If your application “Center of Gravity” (where most of your applications are deployed) is in the cloud, then your integration platform should be in the cloud. This usually happens when your business is new and you don’t have much of an on-premises application footprint. You can bypass on-premises-based integration and go with iPaaS. No installation, less configuration, no patching.
In short, an iPaaS means less hassle for you, faster time to integrate and probably lower total cost of ownership for integration.
The decision to go cloud-based gets more complicated, however, if you plan to keep many of your applications on-premises but otherwise have a “Cloud First” strategy in which every new application is SaaS … more on this later.
Let’s say you’ve been in business for a while and have most of your mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other applications on-premises. In this case, the “Center of Gravity” of your applications is on-premises and based on a few other considerations too, you might want to keep your integration on-premises.
One of these considerations is control. Some of the existing iPaaS products have provided ease of use at the expense of user control so understandably, you might be concerned about this … since more control (features) can often mean more complexity. There really isn’t a one-size-fits-all iPaaS.
If you have a mix of some applications on-premises and some in the cloud, your application “Center of Gravity” is, well, in the center. Welcome to hybrid integration.
When integrating your SaaS applications with other SaaS applications, why introduce latency by bringing the data on-premises and then back into either the same cloud or a different cloud? In this scenario, iPaaS generally makes sense for cloud-to-cloud application integration.
When you integrate with on-premises applications, you don’t have to deal with firewall issues if your integration platform is also on-premises. A common concern is, “Am I adding more complexity by having one integration tool in the cloud and a different toolset on-premises?” The answer is “yes” unless you use a hybrid integration platform, which provides both cloud integration and on-premises integration without having to integrate these two.
Hybrid integration is the right answer for API initiatives as well. In fact, APIs and integration are two sides of the same coin. Including API management as part of your hybrid integration strategy offers several benefits:
APIs drive real business value but organizations need a wide range of capabilities to both expose APIs and consume APIs exposed by SaaS apps. Although the majority of organizations have gained some experience with APIs, there are several challenges that persist:
Enabling the creation and management of APIs in a single solution
If you have a mix of some applications on-premises and some in the cloud, your application “Center of Gravity” is, well, in the center. Welcome to hybrid integration.
When integrating your SaaS applications with other SaaS applications, why introduce latency by bringing the data on-premises and then back into either the same cloud or a different cloud? In this scenario, iPaaS generally makes sense for cloud-to-cloud application integration.
When you integrate with on-premises applications, you don’t have to deal with firewall issues if your integration platform is also on-premises. A common concern is, “Am I adding more complexity by having one integration tool in the cloud and a different toolset on-premises?” The answer is “yes” unless you use a hybrid integration platform, which provides both cloud integration and on-premises integration without having to integrate these two.
Hybrid integration is the right answer for API initiatives as well. In fact, APIs and integration are two sides of the same coin. Including API management as part of your hybrid integration strategy offers several benefits:
APIs drive real business value but organizations need a wide range of capabilities to both expose APIs and consume APIs exposed by SaaS apps. Although the majority of organizations have gained some experience with APIs, there are several challenges that persist:
Today’s business demands that new applications and integrations be delivered quickly and be able to scale using microservices-style architectures. To deliver microservices- style architectures, you will need integrations to scale in the cloud using a container such as Docker®. As on-premises apps get replaced by cloud-based apps, it makes sense to deliver the integration between the SaaS apps in the cloud itself.
Using our hybrid integration platform, you can achieve a microservices-style architecture for hybrid integration:
Moreover, if you have decided to use DevOps for continuous delivery, then continuous integration is required to make that successful. Hybrid integration platform enables DevOps by:
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