The new integration: application integration in the 21st-century world

For at least two decades, integration has been one of the most powerful approaches to leveraging the value of existing IT assets and will likely become even more important in the near future for both internal and customer-facing processes. But in an IT landscape dominated by big data, mobility, social networking and cloud computing, integration will not only grow in importance, its very nature will change. It will also be expected to handle new and unfamiliar data types to deliver business results in real time.

Conventional approaches to integration such as batch-processed ETL will continue to be important, but they will need to be augmented by new technology that can successfully meet these real-time demands.

This paper will discuss the new IT landscape as it relates to the new integration and argues that the need for a comprehensive integration strategy has never been more urgent.