This document discusses how traditional SOA solutions constrain organizations to specific platforms like .NET, requiring large investments. It outlines how next-generation integration platforms can help organizations overcome these challenges by supporting multi-platform, heterogeneous environments and providing robust connectivity to both on-premises and cloud applications and services. MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform is presented as addressing the needs of .NET customers by providing over 120 connectors, including connectors for various Microsoft technologies like MSMQ, Active Directory, and SQL Server.

1. .NET architecture with MuleSoft

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Overview
For .NET centric organizations, the options available to IT for
connecting applications and services across diverse code bases
on-premises and in the cloud are limited. This whitepaper
outlines the critical elements to consider when evaluating solutions
to move away from custom integration code while leveraging .NET
investments to deliver a next generation service oriented
architecture (SOA).

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TRADITIONAL SOA SOLUTIONS HANDCUFF IT
TO .NET
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SOA was envisioned (and sold) to help IT organizations optimize
agility, minimize time and reduce the cost required to develop
software solutions for constantly changing business needs.
However, for many, this grand SOA vision has become bogged
down in complexity, expense, and rigidity, the very things it was
designed to solve. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has evolved
as the core infrastructure and tool set required for enabling SOA,
but the ESB tools from most vendors fail to deliver on the SOA
vision because they:

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Require hefty upfront investments in software, hardware
infrastructure, and armies of expensive consultants to
implement
Focus too much on a single vendor or platform, for example;
requiring organizations to choose .NET or Java, but not both.
Most ESB vendors do not invest sufficiently in adapters for
platforms and applications from other vendors
Use development models and tools that are complex and rigid,
making it very expensive to hire and train integration specialists
to create or maintain data connections

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Next generation integration platforms
deliver SOA, SaaS integration, and APIs
The challenges that SOA attempted to solve are still impacting the
enterprise today, however over time the challenges have evolved,
and are forcing technology leaders to rethink their IT initiatives.
Organizations that have embraced this evolution are part of a new
breed of companies; the New Enterprise. The New Enterprise is
changing IT architectures to deal with the following mega trends

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MULTI-PLATFORM, HETEROGENEOUS
ENVIRONMENTS
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Enterprise architects often attempt to reduce complexity by
confining their organizations to a single vendor, platform, or
development language. This approach limits future flexibility. It
is inevitable that departments or teams will have preferences or
requirements that drive them to adopt an alternative technology.
Company mergers and legacy systems introduce additional
complexities that require a different approach to account for
the many different language patterns, custom applications and
connection services

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CLOUD
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Cloud computing has radically changed how enterprises think
about their IT architecture. With business groups banging down
the doors to get access to new, more powerful Software as a
Service (SaaS) products such as Salesforce.com and Workday,
IT organizations have had to rush to customize their infrastructure
to keep up with services and security demands. In the new cloud
connected world more and more of these applications are based in
multiple languages, including Java or other functional languages,
and the best solutions may not fall within current developer
skillsets.

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ROBUST CONNECTIVITY
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You shouldn’t have to spend your time building connections to
an integration platform, look for a robust adaptor and connector
network that quickly gets you up and running both on-premises
and in the cloud. When the need arises, an open SDK and 3rd
party marketplace greatly increases the pool of applications and
protocols you have access to. It’s critical to ask the question: how
frequently are new connectors and adaptors created for my
integration platform?

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ROBUST CONNECTIVITY
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MuleSoft’s Anypoint TM Platform addresses the needs of .NET
customers in the New Enterprise. Along with over 120 connectors
to the most popular SaaS applications and on-premises systems,
MuleSoft has developed Anypoint Connectors for Microsoft to
address the needs of Microsoft centric IT organizations. Included
connectors:
MSMQ
AMQP
Active Directory
SOAP/WS* (WCF interoperability)
REST (ASP .NET WebAPI interoperability and native JSON support)
SharePoint
SQL Server
Microsoft Dynamics GP
Dynamics CRM
Dynamics Online
Excel/CSV
Yammer

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