Integration as an on-demand service
Got SaaS? Salesforce? ServiceNow? Workday? Zuora? Amazon Redshift?
What about on-premises apps? SAP? Oracle? Microsoft Dynamics?
Don’t forget social media, big data, identity management, online storage and cloud analytics solutions…
I summarized 5 signs you need to re-think your cloud integration strategy on the SnapLogic blog today. Here’s an overview:
Check out this chalk-talk series with the head of engineering at SnapLogic talking about application and data integration delivered as a cloud service (aka iPaaS):
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SnapLogic Integration Cloud Architecture in Review
The series of whiteboard presentations is posted on the SnapLogic blog.
I heard a story today on NPR about young blood reversing heart decline in old mice (the Radiolab podcast is here). Naturally I made the connection to the need for established high-tech companies to inject new thinking, approaches (and blood) in order to remain relevant in the era of SMACT (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud and the Internet of Things). For technology companies trying to Escape Velocity, it’s not just about the old business models and ways of operating vs. the new; it’s about fast vs. slow. It’s about having the vision to skate to where the puck is going early and being nimble and agile enough to make the necessary course corrections.
IDC sees 2014 as a pivotal year for cannibalization as the 2nd platform vendors attempt to adapt and remain relevant. I always enjoy the annual summary of IDC’s technology predictions by Frank Gens. Here it is:
When it comes to cloud integration, I’ve shared some thoughts on the Integrator’s Dilemma here.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Maneesh Joshi from SnapLogic shared his 2014 cloud integration predictions last week. They are:
Here’s a powerpoint overview:
Here’s a quick interview I did with Matt Childs from Vidcaster on the show floor at Dreamforce 2013:
Last week I interviewed Jeff Kaplan from THINKstrategies to get his views on the conference and what was announced. Some of the highlights are here. The slides we reviewed are below.
Gaurav Dhillon co-founded Informatica in 1992 and ran the company until 2004. In 2006 he co-founded SnapLogic, a data integration start-up in San Mateo, California. In 2010 he took over as the company’s Chairman and CEO and re-focused the company on tackling the emerging cloud data and application integration challenge in the enterprise.
Today SnapLogic introduced the SnapLogic Integration Cloud, with a focus on three key areas:
You can read more about the Winter 2014 release of the multi-tenant integration platform as a service (iPaaS) here. Here’s a video of Gaurav introducing the company out summarizing the importance of the right approach to cloud data and application integration in the API economy. He’s also presenting on that topic on a GigaOM webinar with David Linthicum later this week.
This is a pretty cool video about how Pandora runs over 80 internal business applications in the cloud. They deliver an amazing music service in the cloud and they run their entire IT infrastructure in the cloud. I guess you can say that Pandora’s IT organization isn’t just Cloud First, they’re Cloud Only!
Yesterday I attended the Zuora Subscribed conference. The theme of the day was the “unstoppable” subscription economy. The company also announced a Subscription Manifesto. I’ll post a more detailed overview on the SnapLogic blog next week (we were a sponsor). Today I was driving back from meeting with a CIO at a company in the midst of transitioning from an old-world, hand-coded data integration approach to a modern, truly elastic cloud integration platform. Two songs came on the radio that really summarized my thoughts on the conference and shift that’s taking place in enterprise software. (Thank you 107.7 The Bone!)
The first was Unchained by Van Halen: “Change, ain’t nothin’ stays the same.”
Some of the words I heard over and over at the Zuora conference were:
Then, right after rocking out to some classic Van Halen, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd came on the radio. It reminded me of the boiling frog metaphor. This is what it feels like when you’re at a perpetual license software company that hasn’t done what Adobe did recently and fully embraced the subscription economy. “There is no pain you are receding. A distant smoke [cloud?] on the horizon.”
Some of the words that come to mind when I think about the old world:
The subscription economy is here – congratulations to Zuora on a great conference! Next stop – Dreamforce 2013!
And because it’s Friday, here are the two videos. Both happen to be great songs (in my opinion); just very different messages…
In this video, SnapLogic CEO (and co-founder of Informatica) Gaurav Dhillon talks about the mission of his company and what’s changed in the data integration market.
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