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Ensure you reap the benefits of SaaS by having a smart, coherent integration strategy. Avoid a piecemeal integration approach that can tie you up in knots.
SaaS offerings are popular because they can be implemented quickly and easily by business units and individual users. What people talk about less though, is the complexity of integration issues that can result when SaaS applications are introduced piecemeal without a cohesive company strategy.
If your company doesn’t have a smart approach to Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), what you can end up with is a range of “isolated” applications, which are unable to “talk to” each other. This can mean that the agility, collaboration and flexibility you hoped to realize by adopting Saas is not actually achieved.
Dain Hansen, director of integration product marketing for Oracle, puts it well when he says, "People have been more successful in getting SaaS on board, but not as capable of getting the benefits from SaaS."
Oracle has recently released a very interesting Whitepaper on 5 Ways to Simplify Cloud Integration. The Oracle Whitepaper describes how to simplify cloud integration as you transition from a complex, application integration architecture to a simple and agile integration platform.
A quick summary of the benefits of using Oracle’s Cloud Integration Services:
So what are you waiting for? Contact us today to find out how we can help you to integrate your JD Edwards ERP with your SaaS applications, how we can help you prepare to take advantage of the Internet of Things (IOT) and ensure that your on-Premise and hosted solutions talk to each other.
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Thomas Kurian -- Oracle OpenWorld Keynote 2014
Oracle's Executive Vice President of Product Development, Thomas Kurian, shares his keynote on, "Cloud Services for the Modern Enterprise" at Oracle OpenWorld 2014. In this keynote he talks about three major trends in business and culture:
He talks about the Oracle Integration Cloud Service, which enables SaaS-to-SaaS and SaaS-to-on-premises integration, and Oracle Process Cloud Service, which provides cloud-based business process management (BPM) capabilities. This sections starts at 35 minutes.
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