Enterprise Integration for Beginners

Enterprise software used to be slow moving, legacy, safe-playing and conservative in the past. But that era is long gone with the new advancements we have seen in the last 5 to 10 years. This trend of innovation and rapid change will get accelerated during the year 2018. Here are 5 main technology areas that will change the way people build, sell and use enterprise software. IaaS to PaaS to FaaS  — Maintaining a server infrastructure was challenging even for very large enterprises due to the various levels of expertise needed to maintain it. But this has changed a long way with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006 and with their EC2 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). All the other cloud vendors followed AWS and offered their own solutions like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud platform. Then came the next level of cloud computing frameworks, Platform as a Service or PaaS where cloud vendors provide both infrastructure as well as operating systems and a common platfo...

We know for a fact that there are more mobile phones than the world population right now (2017 November). Check the below graphics if you don’t aware of it. But this does not mean that every person has a mobile phone. But it is almost every person who can handle a mobile phone will get it by 2020. Check the below graphics from Cicso where they predict by 2020, there will be more people with mobile phones than people with electricity. I will stop right here without going deep into mobile phones. But the above 2 graphics clearly shows us that mobile phones has been democratized so quickly even it has overtaken an essential need like electricity. Most of these mobile devices are in the category of “smart phones” where they have a connectivity to the internet. 10 years back, a farmer living in a rural village in Dambulla, SriLanka may not have even dreamt about having such a device in their hand. But it happened in a way no one could predict. Mobile phones have been democratiz...

Digital transformation is as real as it can get. Based on a recent survey done by Gartner, 42% of CEOs have already started working on it. This 42% does not include the tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft since they are already beyond the digital transformation (more towards AI part of it). Even though there is still 50% of CEOs who has not started on this journey, they definitely will (hopefully if they want to stay up to the competition). While enterprises are moving towards the digital transformation, the technology itself has gone way beyond the standard term. People who engaged with the technical aspects of the digital transformation has identified that it is not only about individual enterprises’s digital transformation, but the entire industry’s cooperation can reap more rewards to the entreprises as well as customers. That is where the concept of “Open APIs” or “Open standards” came into the grand stand. One of the hot topics in the european region is the...