iPaaS: Different Ways of Thinking

摘要

The concept of iPaaS is in its infancy, and very few vendors and users even recognize the term. Some see iPaaS as an evolution of integration as a service, which has been widely adopted for cloud services integration. Another point of view presents iPaaS as an emerging form of delivering application and data integration capabilities, consolidating multiple cloud services in a suite aimed at the integration and governance of any combination of on-premises and off-premises applications, within or across organizations. The iPaaS is designed to act in the middle and help connect to a number of services across the layers. Issues come from the convergence and consolidation process toward iPaaS, which will be turbulent. Many providers will disappear;;in the race to leadership, vendors will bring to market immature technologies; some mergers and acquisitions will fail; some vendors will not be able to effectively scale up their platforms to support large cloud workloads; and other vendors will struggle to provide quality support to a growing number of clients.