The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Robert L. Moul, President and CEO, Boomi , 08/27/2008
Print this article
Email this article
Talk Back!
Write to Editor
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry is changing due to popular demand. Consumers of SaaS applications are pushing back on independent software vendors (ISVs), saying in essence, “Don’t make integration my problem. I’m buying your application as a service and I want integration included.” Gone are the days when customers would subscribe to a SaaS application for $50 a month and then be willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to integrate that application with the rest of their portfolio.
Most analysts covering the SaaS industry today would agree that integration is the number one barrier to the adoption of SaaS technology. The problem lies not in the SaaS technology itself but in the attempt to use conventional integration products and appliances for SaaS integration. Conventional integration products were built for traditional on premise software implementations – not SaaS.
The fundamental limitation of conventional integration products (whether hosted on premise or “in the cloud”) is that they are single-tenant. Each customer must buy, install and maintain its own copy of the product and must do so at every location where integration occurs. As a result, using conventional integration products to integrate SaaS greatly increases cost, complexity and time to deploy while also greatly limiting scalability. To date, ISVs have had little choice but to pass that cost and complexity on to the end customer.
Several events this year, including the acquisition of Cape Clear by Workday, signal the beginning of a trend that will profoundly impact the SaaS industry. ISVs are looking beyond conventional integration strategies because they’re simply too costly, complex and time consuming to be effective in the SaaS ecosystem. At the same time, the strategic importance of integration is rising.
Workday recognized that integration is not just an additional customer requirement that must be addressed, but it is in fact a critical and central part of its solution – a real competitive differentiator. Integration is the lynchpin of successful SaaS deployments. A recent Saugatuck survey underscored this point. Survey respondents ranked the ability to integrate SaaS and on-premise workflows as the number one business consideration when selecting a SaaS provider.
-1-
Best Practices in Moving Processes to the Clouds
How Can the Cloud Fit Into Your Applications Strategy?
Cloud Data Integration Best Practices
The Economics of Cloud Computing
Data Services Insight: Successful implementation of Canonical Information Models
ebizQ editorial highlights and updates, compiled by Site Editor Anne Stuart
March 10, 2011
The sixth annual BPM in Action 2011 Virtual Conference will explore cutting-edge market developments in BPM and describe how to leverage them for improved business operation and performance. More
Date:Apr 07, 2010
Time:13:00 PM
ET- (17:00 GMT)
Date:Apr 07, 2010
Time:12:00 PM
ET- (16:00 GMT)
In part two of Joe McKendrick's recent podcast with Miko Matsumura, chief strategist for Software AG, they talk about how SOA and IT systems need to change and grow and adapt with the organization around it.
Listen Now
Phil Wainewright interviews David Vap, VP of products at RightNow Technologies, and finds out how sharing best practices can help businesses understand how best to engage with online communities.
Listen Now
Scott Hebner, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Rational, discusses a topic on the top of every company's mind today: getting the most from IT investments.
Listen Now
In BI, this tough economy and the increasing role of Web 2.0 and MDM are certainly topics on people's minds today. WiseAnalytics' Lyndsay Wise addresses each of them in this informative podcast.
Listen Now
Deepak Singh, President and CTO of Adeptia, joins ebizQ's Dennis Byron in a podcast that gets its hand around the trend of industry-specific BPM.
Listen NowSmart event processing can help your company run smarter and faster. This comprehensive guide helps you research the basics of complex event processing (CEP) and learn how to get started on the right foot with your CEP project using EDA, RFID, SOA, SCADA and other relevant technologies. Learn More
A lot of people are talking about Enterprise 2.0 as being the business application of Web 2.0 technology. However, there's still some debate on exactly what this technology entails, how it applies to today's business models, and which components bring true value. Some use the term Enterprise 2.0 exclusively to describe the use of social networking technologies in the enterprise, while others use it to describe a web economy platform, or the technological framework behind such a platform. Still others say that Enterprise 2.0 is all of these things. Learn More
|
|
This new publication from our sister site SearchSOA.com explores workflow, business activity monitoring (BAM) and complex event processing (CEP) issues. |
|
|
