The Integration Game Changer:WSO2 Integration Cloud

Afkham AzeezWSO2 Inc

Director, Architecture

SaaS: Your apps in the Cloud

• SaaS (Software as a Service) is...o delivery model in which software and associated data are

centrally hosted on the cloud (source: Wikipedia)

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The Great Integration Challenge of the Cloud Era

• Enterprise apps must play nicely with each othero Relieve users from

Re-entering data to different applications Re-enter their credentials

o Share data, authorizationo Abide by enterprise policies

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1. Cloud to Cloud

2. Cloud to On-premises

Integration Scenarios

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Here's my API... Call me maybe?

So, how does yours fit in with my existing applications?

Well, we have this nice SOAP/REST API...

API (Application Programming Interface): An interface through which an application can securely open up

programmatic access to it’s data and functionality, to third party developers.

Wait, I still have to write code!?API from Vendor X

API from Vendor Y

All the work that nobody mentioned

iPaaS

• Stands for Integration Platform as a Service• "... a suite of cloud services enabling development,

execution and governance of integration flows connecting any combination of on premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications and data within individual or across multiple organizations." - Gartner Research

What's in an iPaaS?

protocol bridging, message transports, transformation, routing, service virtualization, Connectors (adapters), orchestration, partner community management, managed file transfer, registry/repository, development tools, artifacts lifecycle management, policy management and enforcement, federation, usage tracking and management, monitoring, b2b integration, ETL, data integration, data federation, SOA governance, SOA enablement, federated SOA support, ...

Types of Integration

• Stateless, short-lived

• ESB• Connectors

• Stateful, long-lived, possibly with human interactions

• BPS• Custom BPEL activity

What's in an iPaaS? - Connectors

• Connects to a specific Cloud or On-premises service

• Configure, don't code.

iPaaS

Connector Catalog

• SalesForce• Twitter• Gmail• Google Drive• Paypal• Jira• Redmine• AWS

•Alfresco•Twilio•Fedex•UPS•Apple Push•SAP•Skype•Blogger•… and more

Sample Connector Config

What's in an iPaaS? – Data Mapping

• All day events

• Multi-day events

Calendar

Calendar

What's in an iPaaS? – Protocols & Message Formats

Data Mapping & Message Formats

• Data types• String, int, date & time, currency etc.

• Primitives• Split, concat, assign etc.

• Mapping language

Data Mapping & Message Formats

Input

Data Mapping

Output

Cloud-Cloud Integration

Data Mapping

Integration in the Cloud

Connector1 Connector2

Mapping File

Cloud-Enterprise Integration

Data Mapping

Mapping File

Integration in the Cloud

CG

Enterprise

Connector1 Connector2Cloud

Gateway

What's in an iPaaS – other significant bits

• Version controlling, Lifecycle management and other dev tools

• The deployment environment

• Performance• Availability • Scalability• Monitoring and Stats

AppFactory

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Integration Versioning

• Different versions of connectors• Corresponding to different versions of APIs• e.g. SAP version x & y, with SaleForce version

a & b• Multiple independent versions in production

Integration Lifecycle Management

• Integrations too could be in dev, test, staging & production

• Supported using AppFactory ALM framework

IDE

Cloud IDEDesktop IDE

How it all fits together

Apache Stratos

WSO2 AppFactory

WSO2 iPaaS

IaaS

Thank You!