Cloud Integration Issues Loom on Horizon, EXTOL Says
By Alex Woodie
What's your cloud integration strategy? If you're like most IBM i shops, much of your data interchange is handled via good old EDI or flat file transfers. But the rapid spread of cloud services is hastening the move to more sophisticated forms of data and application integration and interchange. According to EXTOL , which develops integration broker software for IBM i and other platforms, the day is fast approaching when companies will need new techniques for integrating cloud services into their business processes.
IT Jungle caught up with EXTOL vice president of product management Jim O'Leary telephonically as he attended the Gartner conference in Las Vegas last week. O'Leary, who has been in this business for years, confessed to keeping his "tech filter" on all the time.
"I know how these things work, and what makes sense and what doesn't," he says. "I will predict the hype around cloud apps and cloud-based integration is going to get much greater next year. Unfortunately, I think that's going to lead some people to believe, it's inexpensive, it's 10 times easier and 10 times better, and it's only when they get into the implementation that they realize what they have to deal with."
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