New Survey Shows Enterprise Mobile and SaaS Strategies Dependent on Integration with Legacy Applications

May 26, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from MuleSoft.  Author: Editorial Staff.

MuleSoft, provider of the world’s most widely used integration platform to connect the New Enterprise, found in a survey that 57 percent of enterprise IT professionals indicated the need to modernize legacy applications using APIs to make it easier for applications outside the firewall to access their data. While respondents agreed that mobile and SaaS are critical to their long term IT strategies, exposing their existing applications to be consumed by mobile and other external applications remains a primary obstacle.

"There is massive buzz around SaaS, mobile and Big Data, but the secret nobody talks about is that you can’t make it work without connectivity," said Ross Mason, founder and vice president of product strategy at MuleSoft. “This survey shows there is powerful market demand for integration solutions, driving a new era of hyperconnectivity. In 2012, 60 percent of MuleSoft’s new revenue involved SaaS and/or mobile integration – proof that we are making good on our mission to alleviate the $500 billion integration pain point.”…

In the 2013 Global Mobile, API and SaaS Enterprise Adoption Survey of 300 enterprise IT professionals across a variety of industries, MuleSoft found that enterprises embarking on SaaS and mobile strategies encounter significant integration challenges, with APIs being a key strategy in solving the problem:

  • 56 percent said there are initiatives around mobile apps within their organization, and enabling mobile apps is a top priority for respondents who do not yet have a mobile app strategy
  • Almost half responded that managing the performance and security of mobile APIs was one of the biggest obstacles to executing on their organization’s mobile app strategy
  • While SaaS promises to reduce complexity, over 60 percent indicated SaaS adoption resulted in IT infrastructure becoming more complex or at least the same
  • Over 80 percent responded that they have either embarked on an API strategy or felt strongly that there should be one as part of their company’s overall IT strategy…

Read more from the source @ http://www.mulesoft.com/survey-enterprise-mobile-saas-integration-legacy-applications

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