Gartner Application Architecture,
Development & Integration Summit

Track F: Application Integration – Secret Sauce for Successful Applications, SOA and Cloud Services

For years application integration has been an essential discipline to maximize your investments in diverse on-premise applications, ecommerce projects and to enable SOA initiatives. It’s now also a hot topic for companies shifting business functionality to the Cloud. How do you synchronize master data or integrate critical business processes between Cloud services and on-premise applications or SOA infrastructure? Answers to such questions begin with a clear understanding of how integration requirements are evolving, and how integration best practices, technologies and vendors are evolving to address hybrid combinations of on-premise applications, SOA infrastructure and Cloud services.

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Data Integration Technology and Architecture: Critical Infrastructure for Enterprise Information Management

Data integration is a mainstay for achieving integrated applications and providing access, movement and transformation of data. It is relevant for business intelligence, system consolidation and migration, B2B data sharing, etc. EIM is on the rise and leverages basic data integration but is a more holistic approach to data discipline that also addresses SOA, low-latency data delivery, and data quality. Vendors of data integration technologies continue to mature but the market remains fragmented and volatile.

5 Essential Questions to Ask Prior to Beginning ANY Integration Project

Application versus process versus data Integration. Application-to-application (A2) versus business-to-business (B2B) versus ecommerce versus cloud services integration. Integration software versus integration services. Oh, my – isn’t integration complicated? Come discover the 5 essential questions you should ask prior to implementing any integration project to help ensure your success.

Rapid Fire: If We Build Cloud API’s, Do We (Still) Need Cloud Integration?

Many companies publish cloud API’s to share information and link business processes. Some companies consume each other’s API’s, eliminating the need for cloud services integration. But many companies still leverage various integration technology. Why? If you build it (cloud API’s), will they (API users) come? Thus, is there still a need for “integration” technology, per se?

Beyond Integration Software: The Role of Integration Infrastructure in Agile Computing

Today, the thing that differentiates competitors is the agility an organization achieves by fully integrating all of its assets. This means that in addition to getting applications and data that were designed independently to work together integration’s scope must be expanded to getting application infrastructure that was designed independently to work together. The result, an enterprise nervous system, serves as the foundation of the real-time enterprise that gives you the competitive of being able to quickly adjust to changing business conditions.

Cloud Services Brokerage: Taking Intermediation to the Next Level

Cloud Services Brokerage is a business model whereby a third party works on behalf of the consumer of one or more cloud services to intermediate and add value to the service being consumed. Cloud Services Brokerage is a new form of Cloud service that combines integration as a service, governance, and other value-added services such as security, context and analytics to intermediate interactions between Cloud services providers and consumers.

Rapid Fire: SOA vs MDM -- Where Do You Start?

Everyone wants to use SOA. And, everyone wants to improve their Master Data Management. But, where do you start? Is this a “chicken and egg” conundrum? Or, is there a best practice that applies?

Case Study: TBD

Its time to Properly Govern File Transfer in SOA and Cloud Environments

File transfer solutions have traditionally been deployed as point solutions, however as SOA, B2B and Cloud initiatives grow, the proliferation of file transfer and repositories bring new challenges for governance. How do you manage, secure, deploy and govern file transfer across IT boundaries while maintaining consistency across disparate platforms? Organizations needs to understand how MFT solutions can provide a holistic approach to file transfers and how it helps organizations manage and govern files using SLA and policy management.

Best Practices for Ecommerce and Cloud Integration

Innovation is forcing companies to virtualize business data and processes across trading partners and Cloud services. Most companies treat ecommerce and Cloud services integration as separate problems -- yet doing so will lead to future inefficiencies.

Composite Applications - Delivering Value by Leveraging a World of Resources

Composite Applications help companies strengthen relationships with partners, automate processes and make better decisions. However, a Composite Application requires the integration of data sources, devices and programs that weren’t designed to be integrated. This raises the specter of high integration cost; increased budget and schedule risk; and delayed time to benefit.

Case Study: TBD

MDM Scenario: Why Getting Data Right is Essential For Successful SOA and Cloud

The promise of SOA and hype around Cloud seems often ignores the impact of inconsistent, low quality, un-governed data has on such initiatives. As SOA matures and cloud adoption proliferates, the need to govern master data – both inside and outside the enterprise -- is becoming clearer. We highlight barriers to such governance, and explore best practices and techniques to overcome them.

For years application integration has been an essential discipline to maximize your investments in diverse on-premise applications (via "A2A integration"), ecommerce projects ("B2B") and to enable SOA initiatives. It's now also a hot topic for companies shifting business functionality to the Cloud. How do you synchronize master data or integrate critical business processes between Cloud services and on-premise applications or SOA infrastructure? Answers to such questions begin with a clear understanding of how integration best practices, technologies and vendors are evolving to address hybrid combinations of on-premise applications, SOA infrastructure and Cloud services.