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Recent releases target companies that look simplify cloud application integration

Blogger Michael Vizard has recently taken a look at how several companies, including Mulesoft, Aria Systems, have used subscription-based services to build their business.

Hollis Tibbets at ebizQ has picked up on the trend as well. He explains how the cloud application integration market is growing rapidly—just as cloud data integration did over the last few years. The key to growth, says Tibbets, is that providers are moving away from the integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaas) and offering the integration itself as a service with the help of common APIs and plugins.

Business Rules Management Service designed to bring order to chaotic processes [Press release]

JBoss, the open source division of Red Hat, updated its ESB, BSRM, and SOA platforms. The updates include significant changes to the Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine, which JBoss says will improve the way connected technologies interpret and respond to events in real time. A blog post from the JBoss team explains how the technologies may have a specific impact in the mortgages industry.

Tools from CastIron, WebSphere, and Tivoli integrated into SmartCloud offering [Idevnews]

IBM recently released a new version of SmartCloud, which combines security, application integration, and provisioning technologies. SmartCloud is designed to facilitate the creation and management of business rules, application logic, and policies within a hybrid cloud environment. According to the article, IBM is counting on more and more enterprises moving to a hybrid cloud environment. Independent research suggests that trend will continue.

Some systems upgraded from mechanical to SaaS in one swoop [Environmental Leader]

Taking an on-premise system to the cloud requires careful restructuring of the theoretical pipes and wires that pass data between applications. The challenge is far different when SaaS integration requires the restructuring of pipes and wires that pass water and electricity. The growing sector of energy monitoring software is responding to that need. This article from Environmental Leader looks at trends and challenges in energy monitoring software.

Improvement of integration capability helps SaaS pull companies forward [Idevnews]

Software as a Service started to take off just as the global economy was coming in for a hard landing. While many industries have stagnated, SaaS has matured both technologically and economically. Companies once reliant on venture capital have become profitable, and applications once less reliable and robust than their on-premise counterparts have become the tools of choice for many organizations. In this article the author highlights specific reasons why SaaS will be a leader of economic recovery.

Oxford Bookstores of India uses cloud platform to keep retail and web stores on same page [Information Week]

Oxford bookstores of India was looking to better support the growth of its online business channels, including web stores and e-books, but without overspending or operating separately from its retail storefronts. The company chose to use an “IT as a Service” option from consultancy Tata. While Oxford officials agree that the savings will not be immediate, they project that over the long term their investment will result in significant cost savings.

Director of Integration at Workday talks Integration as a Service (IaaS) [ZDnet]

In this transcribed interview, analyst Dana Gardner talks with David Clarke, director of integration at Workday, about the rise of integration in the cloud. Clarke suggests that the surprising rise of mobile technology and pressure from open source providers has made integration as a service a reality much sooner than he initially expected. The entire middleware stack may one day become available in the cloud, which presents new considerations for deployment, pricing, and development of applications. It also means that middleware may not long remain so arcane and esoteric to non-IT professionals.

Identity and access orchestration, compliance at top of list [Information Week]

In this information week article, author Michael Biddick lists six problems many CIOs encounter when integration SaaS applications. But more than echoing security and reliability concerns, Biddick digs up real problems, such as business process management implementation and data enrichment, and discusses how to address them. He acknowledges that hand-coded point-to-point integration can get the job done when only a few SaaS integrations are used, but also shares considerations when choosing software for larger integration projects.

Former Informatica CEO says hybrid approach to integration is a must [CNET]

SnapLogic CEO and former CEO and cofounder of Informatica Gaurav Dhillon spoke with CNET.com about cloud integration. From the interview:

With the influx of SaaS applications entering the enterprise, companies don’t have the resources or expertise to hand code heavy integrations between each and every application or data source. That means that integration has to be easy to accomplish. It also means that integration has to be able to scale.

Read the full interview for more insight on integration. We spoke with SnapLogic last month about the importance of the integration marketplace.

WSO2 Carbon 3.2 also includes Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine. [Press Release]

WSO2 today announced the release of WSO2 Carbon 3.2, an upgrade to its SOA middleware system. The release includes WSO2 ESB 4.0, an enterprise service bus built on Apache Synapse and featuring a new routing system designed to improve processing speed. The release also includes an updated governance registry that adds a new API and support for UDDI.

With the release WSO2 adds to the platform a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine and a new message broker. WSO2 Carbon 3.2 is available for free download or as cloud virtual machines.