I suppose this might sound something like “service as a service” since many professional services firms are dedicated to systems integration. But there’s a trend towards data and application integration being done as an automated solution, often delivered through the cloud, rather than as an expensive on-premise project involving dozens of contractors.
Look at Talend, SnapLogic and Informatica Cloud, for example. Each offers tools that enable users to integrate data and applications using pre-built software, commoditizing the integration process.
Informatica is an old school data integrator, SnapLogic was co-founded by Informatica co-founder Gaurav Dhillon and the co-founders of Talend, Bertrand Diard and Fabrice Bonan, come from a systems integrator background. And the technology from these companies is set to totally disrupt business as usual in the integration business.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Trends 2012: Integration-as-a-Service- SiliconANGLE.com
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