No matter where you move your integration workloads, it is always a good first step to carefully pick an API strategy that will help you easily modernize the landscape. Then, by understanding your “center of gravity” for each integration workload, you can figure out which integration options fit it best. Our recommendation is to start with quick wins – re-hosting as-is is a good option and will allow you to get a feeling of what it means to run in the cloud. You can track running and operational costs as well as monitor for any hidden problems that might get exposed – network topologies, legal aspects concerning your data, knowledge gaps in your organization and many others.
The next easy step can be re-platforming, especially if you start building integrations between brand-new SaaS applications. webMethods.io provides simplicity in building those workflows with good UX and a lot of ready recipes for many modern systems.
Meanwhile your organization can gradually acquire the skills to implement and deploy integration microservices in a container orchestration environment.
As you’ll end up with a lot of different integrations, you’ll need to prepare yourself to govern all those in a scalable manner.