Is Ipaas mature?

In the not-too-distant past, Ipaas was only considered a decent way of integrating software as a service (SaaS), a way for businesses to find solutions to problems associated with traditional integration models, and to find solutions to problems in the scenario business and the traditional integration approach, According to Ovum senior analyst Saurabh Sharma said. When it comes to an integrated information business model, everything will change, he says.

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  "Integrated information service model greatly contributes to the evolution of Ipaas from infancy to becoming the main SaaS integration approach," Sharma said.   More than 10 years ago, cloud computing was not a radar for people, but in the past seven years the supplier has matured, according to Glenn Weinstein, chief technical officer of cloud services agent Appirio. He pointed out that this promoted the cloud-based local information platform. is the adoption state of  ipaas mature?   According to experts, it still has a way to go before Ipaas is considered the preferred solution for application integration. "SOA is still the most robust integration approach, ideal for a variety of complex integration scenarios, including local, business-to-business, and cloud service integration," Sharma said. Tom Nolle, president of the   strategy consulting firm Cimi Group, agreed, noting that he saw the growth momentum in mixed cloud applications. "What people say is that mixing will create a display toolset for Ipaas," Nolle said.   also has certain scenarios, mainly public cloud applications, in which Nolle is convinced that Ipaas occupies a place. But for many companies, cloud computing is equivalent to simple managed server consolidation, Nolle says.   "Given the lack of integration support, the pure public cloud environment is not likely to go too far in the integration strategy because most of them are not integrated," Nolle said. "As you start moving to deploy multiple component applications in a public cloud, you have an integration problem, and you start to see Ipaas."  weinstein said there are several reasons why the adoption also deals with the early stages, as follows:   obsolete legacy infrastructure Ipaas inability to deal with large volumes • Enterprises not aware that integration can be done in the cloud   " Our understanding of the integration platform as a service is not at the same level as our knowledge of cloud-based CRM (Customer relationship Management) or cloud-based HR, "Weinstein said. "It is still considered to be only the leading adoption that is involved." "  Although the adoption of Ipaas is still in infancy, there are organizations that are interested in implementing this technology." Does this mean that enterprise architects need to revisit their skills?   "From a technical standpoint, Ipaas is not entirely different from local integration, at least in terms of skills and technology," Weinstein said. "You are still primarily dealing with Web services based environments."   Overcoming Ipaas Barriers   Experts say potential Ipaas traps include:   into trouble with migration integration from traditional infrastructure • Think Ipaas can handle bigger deals faster than expected • Turn cloud "The clouds are there"   forgetIpaas is part of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to understand what you're doing! Assuming that Ipaas can handle things more than it can handle, this is an obstacle that an enterprise architect might face, according to Weinstein, who believes that service model experience is critical to maximizing the impact of using technology.   "In fact, the Cloud-based integration platform is outside the firewall, which requires early planning by the customer security team," Weinstein said. "For some companies, this is different from the pattern they use." For Ipaas, you usually have a transaction initiated from an internal firewall. "  Because of the use of technology, the mentality of the problem is also very important." If architects want to avoid troublesome Ipaas, they need to rethink ALM because of the cloud, Nolle said.   "Even if Ipaas's ALM is a legitimate part of it, as Ipaas today, it is often used as a band-aid for specific problems, not for the cloud, an element in the ALM practice," Nolle said.   Whether an organization has a plan to use Ipaas or to wander through many solutions, if they plan to integrate in the cloud, the model is what architects should consider.