1. The Integration Game Changer:
WSO2 Integration Cloud
Afkham Azeez
WSO2 Inc
Director, Architecture

2. SaaS: Your apps in the Cloud
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SaaS (Software as a Service) is...
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delivery model in which software and associated data are
centrally hosted on the cloud (source: Wikipedia)
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3. The Great Integration Challenge of the
Cloud Era
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Enterprise apps must play nicely with each other
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Relieve users from
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Re-entering data to different applications
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Re-enter their credentials
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Share data, authorization
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Abide by enterprise policies
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4. Integration Scenarios
1. Cloud to Cloud
2. Cloud to On-premises
Cloud Images courtesy of Bartosz Kaszubowski. Server image from OpenClipart.org

5. 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.

6. Wait, I still have to write code!?
API from Vendor X
API from Vendor Y
All the work that nobody
mentioned

7. iPaaS
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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 cloudbased processes, services, applications and data within
individual or across multiple organizations." - Gartner
Research

8. 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, ...

9. Types of Integration
• Stateless, short-lived
• ESB
• Connectors
• Stateful, long-lived, possibly with human interactions
• BPS
• Custom BPEL activity

10. What's in an iPaaS? - Connectors
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Connects to a specific Cloud or On-premises
service
Configure, don't code.
iPaaS

11. Connector Catalog
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SalesForce
Twitter
Gmail
Google Drive
Paypal
Jira
Redmine
AWS
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Alfresco
Twilio
Fedex
UPS
Apple Push
SAP
Skype
Blogger
… and more

12. Sample Connector Config

13. What's in an iPaaS? – Data Mapping
• All day events
Calendar
Calendar
• Multi-day events

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

15. Data Mapping & Message Formats
• Data types
• String, int, date & time, currency etc.
• Primitives
• Split, concat, assign etc.
• Mapping language

16. Data Mapping & Message Formats
Input
Data Mapping
Output

19. Cloud-Cloud Integration
Integration in the Cloud
Data
Mapping
Connector2
Connector1
Mapping
File

20. Cloud-Enterprise Integration
Integration in the Cloud
Enterprise
Data
Mapping
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Connector2
Connector1
Mapping
File
Cloud
Gateway

21. What's in an iPaaS – other significant bits
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Version controlling, Lifecycle management and other dev
tools
The deployment environment
• Performance
• Availability
• Scalability
• Monitoring and Stats

22. AppFactory

23. appfactorypreview.wso2.com

24. 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

25. Integration Lifecycle
Management
• Integrations too could be in dev, test, staging &
production
• Supported using AppFactory ALM framework

26. IDE
Cloud IDE
Desktop IDE

30. How it all fits together
WSO2 iPaaS
WSO2 AppFactory
Apache Stratos
IaaS

31. Thank You!