“How to use APIs to solve pervasive integration challenges”
Every organization has an integration problem. Several IT trends like the emergence of cloud-based services, the explosion of channels to reach customers and the need to enable different types of apps including mobile, bots, sensors or IoT lead to a range of new integration challenges. Such challenges include, for example, building consistent omni-channel experiences, integrating with mobile, IoT or cloud-native apps, enabling SaaS integrations across different environments, complying with regulations, or increasing internal agility. In this talk we introduce the Agile Integration concept to tackle these challenges. Agile integration is an architectural approach centered around APIs. It leverages agile methods as we know it from software engineering for the purpose of rapidly integrating diverse applications and data, with a focus on scalability, reusability, and flexibility across hybrid deployment models. At its core, agile integration resides on the three pillars: distributed integration for greater flexibility, containers for the ability to scale better, and managed APIs for re-usability and hence speed. We will complement the talk with a practical demo.
Talk presented at APIdays Paris on 30th of January 2018