No matter where your environment is hosted, integration will remain the central piece that ties your enterprise together. The need to integrate has only increased with the proliferation of SaaS applications, IoT sensors and devices, and mobile app development in addition to the vast number of applications of record - mainframes, legacy and custom once.
Your integration software connects your data across all environments, overlapping all the domains and reaching all the endpoints. As your software starts being hosted outside of your data center, the integration starts to span across on-premises ERM, CRM, and mainframe, cloud and SaaS environments, edge devices and sensors and B2B partners. Very soon you’ll feel the need to modernize your integration software for the same reasons you migrated your other solutions – need of agility, robustness, and reduction of the operational costs. As the integration doesn’t bring value on its own, but connects applications, your organization will have to assess where the important data resides – in other words, where the center of gravity regarding your data is.