ESB as a Service will emerge as integration option over coming years
The ESB as a Service is not in wide use, but industry leaders believe that the demand for the ESB as a Service will grow rapidly in the next few years.
An ESB, or enterprise service bus, is an integration middleware layer that helps integrate applications written in different languages or frameworks. An ESB as a Service would make the functionality of the ESB available over a public or private network.
We recently talked with CTOs at open source ESB providers WSO2 and MuleSoft about the future of the ESB as a Service. For now, the adoption of the ESB as a Service parallels broader cloud adoption trends.
“Large enterprises are pretty conservative,” said Paul Fremantle, CTO of WSO2. “But we see that attitude, that people are not willing to do things in the public cloud, is changing.”
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Cloud computing still “the wild west” when it comes to standardization
We spoke recently with Ross Mason, CTO of open source enterprise service bus (ESB) provider MuleSoft. As an open source integration tool, the Mule ESB makes use of standards whenever possible. But Mason believes that standards for cloud integration will need a few years to mature.
“There’s a lot of discussions on many of the architecture boards around defining different standards for the cloud,” said Mason. “Unfortunately, I don’t think any of that is really going to take hold until we start seeing more widespread usage, and then we’ll see second generation where we might get more standardized.”
“It’s still the wild west,” added Mason.
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Posted in Cloud app integration news, Enterprise Service Bus by Mike Ponta on Nov 12 2010
Workday CTO Stan Swete believes that cloud integration is a major hurdle for those CTOs wary of cloud, on par with security and autonomy. According to this ZDNet article, integration comes up in every conversation.
According to this article from ITBusinessEdge, many companies adopting cloud computing have become disillusioned with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Many companies with growing B2B integration initiatives are finding that the EAI and ESB systems within their stacks are redundant, because the intrasystem integration is no longer as important as the B2B integration.
Cloud-based document management provider KnowledgeTree today announced offline backup functionality for its customers. KnowledgeTree acknowledges that it gives their customers “piece of mind.” The move underscores how customer confidence in cloud security and reliability is not absolute, nor should vendors assume it is.
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Posted in Cloud app integration news by Mike Ponta on Nov 4 2010
Fiorano software yesterday announced the launch of Fiorano Cloud Platform, a platform built upon the Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus designed to integrate both SaaS and on-premise applications. The Fiorano Cloud Platform is designed to allow for business process and data integration between various sources and locations. It is hosted on Amazon EC2 and targets cloud integration for service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Dell on Tuesday announced that it will acquire Software as a Service integration provider Boomi. Dell looks to use the Boomi acquisition to help support customers looking to transition to cloud computing. Boomi’s AtomSphere application platform is designed to simplify data transfer between cloud and on-premise applications.
The author here takes a look at how GoodData is embedding business intelligence (BI) dashboards into partner applications. The author suggests that GoodData’s strategy is an alternative to other BI vendors, who look to market stand-alone tools. He considers the advantages of each option in this post from ebizQ.
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ESB makers look to take advantage of cloud computing boom by improving SaaS integration
The enterprise service bus (ESB) powers application integration for many enterprises around the world; a cloud-oriented ESB could allow companies to get the high level of integration an ESB provides while using SaaS tools.
In simplest terms, an ESB is piece of middleware that allows applications written in different languages to easily communicate with one another. Unlike the hub-and-spoke enterprise application integration (EAI) architectures, an ESB has no central point that all communications must pass through. Instead, it has many entry and exit points along a spectrum, so there is no central point of failure.
Traditionally, ESBs were used by large organizations with established on-premise application portfolios. Recent news, though, suggests that ESB providers look to improve support of SaaS application integration as more and more users adopt cloud computing strategies. Read more… »
