Stop Learning the Hard Way: Tackling SaaS Integration

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Loraine Lawson.

Integration continues to frustrate organizations trying to use SaaS applications. TechTarget reports that application integration showed up as a top cloud problem in two surveys it recently conducted. You may recall earlier this year a KPGM survey that found 31 percent said integrating cloud services with their on-premise applications and systems was more complex than expected.

TechTarget’s Cloud Pulse survey found similar results: 34 percent said SaaS programs can’t interoperate with other programs from the cloud or in house. “And once again, customization was tied with integration: Even with customization, 34 percent of Cloud Pulse respondents said SaaS apps can be inadequate for the client’s business needs,” reports SearchEnterpriseLinux.com Site Editor Jan Stafford…

Since we have iPaaS and other options for integrating the cloud, you have to wonder what’s going on. Cloud computing and integration expert David Linthicum recently offered a reason for some of that disconnect (ahem). “Data integration, no matter if you’re integrating internal systems or those in the cloud, is typically an afterthought,” he writes. “Companies now spend millions of dollars to migrate systems to the cloud without a clearly defined plan as to how that data will be integrated with existing enterprise systems. This makes the cloud project much more risky and costly than it has to be.”…

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