Friday, August 22, 2008

Integrate SaaS based applications

Integration has been an ever growing pain point for every enterprise , small -mid- large organizations have to innovate always in terms to keep their business agile & productive.With growing support & interest among organizations to use SaaS based applications for business usecases its also in turn becoming nearly insane for their IT teams to manage resources across these apps. This is where integration solution provider has the challenge to bring out a solution with focus for both to support the existing challenges for a management solution while extending the same to incorporate & manage SaaS based provisioning. Companies which has been seemlessely successfull in offering a solution keeping both the above pain points. So be it a Active directory to be synced with the Sales Force platform or be it a ADP HR/WebEx integration it takes days (not months) for any companies to get it deployed & gain the benefit of automating their integration on both with traditional data sources & SaaS ( cloud) based apps.

why SaaS matters...

With failed integration process over & over again enterprises are way too cautious when it comes to going through yet again an integration.Though things have changed & from a rigid, ad hoc based integration now we have a more flexible & cost effective integration solution using web services & SOAP.Along with companies turning to hosted on-demand applications for various reasons (cost effectiveness & no management overheads) & with a built in support for SOAP by SaaS providers has made it much more easier to integrate end to end with onsite/on premises applications. this has given way to solutions providers to incorporate various business models like SaaS(software as a service), PaaS(platform as a service) & now with cloud computing in picture its even a CaaS(computation as a service) option easily available. So i guess eventually all enterprises now can be virtually on line/on internet with minimal IT teams deployed in house.