Integration Discussions and Vendor Strategies

Back in the day Web Services were the de facto standard for accessing "systems of record". Out of this grew the secured ESB architecture that is synonymous with enterprise architecture. More and more, projects are utilising API Management in those architectures now and pushing on Web Services' door. In this blog I'll explain why social factors as much as technical ones are enabling API Management to make inroads into 'traditional' SOA architectures. I'll also show that API Management is much more than the " API Economy ".

I’ve previously blogged about what most people would think of when they consider  hybrid integration scenarios . In this blog I’m going to show that some recent additions to the IBM portfolio are adding to those core scenarios. These additions are not major product announcements but just a few little extra additions to current products that will probably have slipped under most people’s radar. Whereas I previously discussed how hybrid integration usually consists of whole sets of servers being moved into the cloud; IBM is now enabling much smaller units of work to be placed there. By doing this they are changing the granularity of hybrid integration.