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Hello Phil

Indeed integration is moving to the cloud! I'm happy you mention this "PaaS option", which you missed some time ago (http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11406-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45258&messageID=835989&start=-9985)

As the CEO of RunMyProcess (http://www.runmyprocess.com), a pure SaaS BPM+integration platform, I may not be the most objective person on the subject, but I'm convinced all IT stacks are moving to the cloud: software, hardware and integration obviously is the next step.

However integration on the cloud is more than integrating SaaS applications, it's more than "integration as usual". I'd like to list a couple of key elements:
1) Fast "integration": if you end up with long lasting (as usual) technical projects, you've lost the interest of the cloud. No large project, no long deployement; smaller and iterative projects, immediate deployment and fast ROI.
Register, design, run: if a cloud integration platform requires you to spend more than a handful of days for that, change it.

2) Business driven "integration": if business users can't understand a bit of what a cloud integration platform displays, move to another platform. Cloud promises include accelerating IT for the business, and integration is paramount for that purpose: so business must be able to participate.

3) Built for change: IT is never agile enough to adapt to busines changes. A cloud integration platform must allow to change integration process within hours. This also makes errors less critical, driving to better agility. Again your platform shall not be "techies only".

4) Convergence: one of cloud's biggest revolution is that it blurs the frontier between software, hardware and services. Cloud integration is about transparent automation of exchanges between people, partners, SaaS applications, and web based business services.

Incidentally don't you prefer "cloud orchestration"; "integration" carries so much of the usual IT rigidity.

Regards

Matthieu Hug
http://www.runmyprocess.com

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