Saurabh Sharma, Senior Analyst, IT Solutions

Many organisations are struggling with integration issues created by the rapid rise of social, mobile, and cloud platforms, and given the persistent time and budget constraints, are not inclined to use traditional integration approaches for hybrid integration scenarios.

IT has no other option but to combine traditional and cloud-based integration approaches to deliver the desired integration capabilities on time and within the allocated budget.

The growing adoption of integration PaaS (iPaaS) solutions signifies the increasing importance of “middleware-as-a-service” and marks the transition of integration from being a “one-to-one” to a “many-to-one” function. An increasing number of integration processes are moving to the cloud, and “hybrid integration middleware” paradigms are no longer uncommon, with this trend expected to become steadily more pervasive.

The rise of hybrid IT calls for a hybrid integration strategy

The rapid rise of cloud services is driving the proliferation of hybrid …