Integration Tools: Integrating the Next generation Applications
Today’s global business scenario is the result of a technologically productive and advanced generation. Right from customers to clients to employees and the top management all being tech savvy and technology hungry, demands new and innovative software and IT infrastructure to meet the growing demands of the aggressively competitive world. With various software and applications being used, life of the workforce becomes more comfortable but for the IT professionals managing all these with a security tag is a difficult proposition.
Enterprises then opt for carrying out integration between various enterprise applications mostly among those, which have long and expensive deployment cycles, to link the data and applications from diverse information systems. Such enterprise application integration facilitates access to business-critical information in a fast way and also enables the organizations to share it broadly with employees at every level, thus leveraging IT investments. Earlier with the development of legacy systems using proprietary technology, information though available in the organizations databank, was as island groups and was not easy to upgrade.
The goal of enterprise application integration is to create a framework for integrating incompatible and distributed systems making it faster and easier to extend business processes throughout the organization. Since application integration is not an easy process, there are a number of service organizations that have forayed into the market to provide robust integration infrastructure, which would help organizations integrate large, physically distributed operational data deployments, relational data sources, packaged applications and technologies.
An integration infrastructure, which is a service-oriented architecture or SOA based integration, can reconfigure legacy systems and applications as modular, reusable services. This helps to create an environment for enterprise application integration. Further, Software Development Life Cycle tools for integration are a point-to-point integrated multi vendor tool, a single vendor integrated ALM Tools or a multi-vendor best of breed integrated ALM Tools.
Out of the three, the multi-vendor tools integration approach is free from complex and costly integrations. Based on ALM middleware technology, this method of integration of enterprise applications offers the client organization simpler development as it uses service bus architecture. Further, being web based it facilitates seamless integration tools from third party vendors, singly or multiple in a single ecosystem. Moreover, since there no hard integration codes, these middleware adapters enjoy the flexibility to integrate. The central framework of the enterprise bus allows traceability with change impact analysis.
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