How to Use Hybrid Integration Platforms Effectively

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Jess Thompson

The Hybrid Integration Platform: Foundational Infrastructure for a Digital Business

ICCs are caught in a deluge.

Conditions will deteriorate!

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Key Issues

1.  What is a hybrid integration platform and what are its components?

2.  How will the hybrid integration platform evolve?


The Hybrid Integration Platform

Headquarters

LOB Apps Application Suite LOB Apps Enterprise Services

SaaS Social Media

Suppliers

Division A Division A

Customers

Definition: A hybrid integration platform is on-premises and cloud-based, integration technologies securely connected so that it supports the integration of on-premises endpoints, cloud endpoints and the combination of the two, for all integration patterns.

Mobile Devices

Internet of Things


Application Integration Suite Features Asia/Pacific

Division

Communications Transformation Orchestration Intelligent Routing Adapters B2B Gateway Monitoring, Management and Administration


iPaaS Platform Features

Integration Services Development Platform Governance Platform Life Cycle Management Platform Cloudstream Marketplace Collaboration Monitoring, Management, and Administration Secure Connectivity to On-premises Platform


API Management Features

Policy Management Security, SLAs, …

Policy Enforcement Central PAP, Distributed PEPs

Security Security Extensions

Token Mapping, Redaction

Management of Traffic Messages Interfaces

Developer Support API Customization Dependency Tracking

Virtual Outer APIs

UI Service Thing

Inner APIs

Svc Svc Svc Svc

Application 1

Service Control Gateway

Inner APIs

Svc Svc Svc Svc

Application 2

Inner APIs

Svc Svc Svc Svc

Application 3

Public APIs


Key Issues

1.  What is a hybrid integration platform and what are its components?

2.  How will the hybrid integration platform evolve?


Extending a HIP to Establish an IoT Platform

= IoT Localized Device / Data Management, Apps / Analytics, Communications, Security.

IoT Endpoints = Things + = APIs

IoT Business Solution

Orchestration

Data / IM

BI / Analytics

APIs / Integration / MOM

Gateways

Mobile

Partners

IT Apps

IoT Endpoints

IoT Platform Cloud

OT Apps

(ERP, CRM,…) (MES, BMS,…)

Customers

Things

Agents

Communications

APIs / Integration / MOM

Business Outcomes

Holistic

Aggregated Device Management


Extending the HIP Even Further A Multidiscipline Integration Platform

Application Integration Suite

iPaaS Technologies

Data Transformation and Integration

Orc

hest

ra-

tion Application

Connectivity Development Security Administration Management and Visibility

Governance

Communications

API Management

In-memory Data Grid

Additive Technologies for Digital Business Initiatives Intelligent Business Operations Platform

Intelligent BPM Suite Business Rules Management

Event Processing Operational Intelligence Technologies

IoT Technologies Mobile Technologies

Metadata Management and Federation

Hybrid Integration

Platform


It's Not Necessary to Have All Features From One Vendor

Source: "Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Integration Suites," 29 July 2014 (G00266699) "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service," 27 January 2015 (G00255649) “Magic Quadrant for Application Services Governance,” 5 April 2015 (G00270248) “Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites” 18 March 2015 (G00258612)

L = Leader V = Visionary C = Challenger N = Niche Player

IBM Oracle Software

AG Tibco Microsoft SAP Axway Mule- Soft

Informa-tica

On-Premises App Integration MQ

L L L L L L L L

iPaaS MQ V V V L L

App Services Governance MQ V C N C L L

Data Integration Tools MQ L L C L

Intelligent BPMS MQ L V V V


Recommendations Next Monday:

-  Understand the cloud-based offerings of your integration technology providers.

-  Evaluate whether a HIP, if implemented within your infrastructure, will provide business benefits. IF SO, THEN:

Your Next 90 Days: -  Identify a use case for a proof-of-concept project ensuring that it will

demonstrate business value. -  Establish a business case for obtaining the needed infrastructure

components. -  Build a prototype hybrid integration platform.

Your Next 12 Months: -  Implement and use your production hybrid integration platform. -  Establish methodologies around managing federated integration domains. -  Continue to identify the benefits and report the results -  Establish a plan for transitioning to a multidiscipline integration platform.


Recommended Gartner Research è  Why There's a Move Toward Hybrid Integration

Platforms Jess Thompson and Benoit J. Lheureux (G00255129)

è  How to Use Hybrid Integration Platforms Effectively Jess Thompson (G00260757)

è  Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Integration Suites Jess Thompson, Yefim V. Natis and others (G00266699)

è  Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service Massimo Pezzini, Yefim V. Natis and others (G00255649)

è  Evaluate Gateway Capabilities Required to Deploy Software-Defined Architecture for Application Services Jess Thompson and Ross Altman (G00269756)

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