The heart of the digital transformation story for many businesses lies in integration. Today’s app market place allows businesses to pick and choose from a smorgasbord of apps and these apps need to get connected to improve transparency across the company and make it easier to make high-level decisions. Businesses need a flexible integration solution that not only helps them get connected to employees and customers, but also paves the way to the future.

1. The Future of Integration
Toon Vanhoutte
Solution Architect | Codit
Microsoft Azure MVP

2. Increasing digitalization
Speed of business
Legacy systems
Exploring new models

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Idea > see the light!

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The natural evolution of an IT landscape

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ComplexityofIntegration
Number of Applications

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ComplexityofIntegration
Number of Applications

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Gartner’s pace layered architecture
Systems of record
Core transaction processing
Critical master data
Systems of differentation
Unique processes / capabilities
Best of breed, SaaS, modules of a suite
Systems of innovation
New apps, new business models
Consumer-focussed

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RecordDifferentationInnovation Speed of
change
High
Medium
Low
Planning
horizon
2-3 month
1-2 years
7+ years
Governance
& process
Ad hoc
More
streamlined
Strict control
& testing
API
design
Specific
Reusable
Generic

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API Management
Integration
Limit customization!
Impact of vendor upgrades
Keep customization in the
differentiation layer
Solid foundation!
Are the API’s well defined?
Is the system extensible?
Security & data validation?
Decouple applications!
Canonic data model
Technology agnostic
Reduce dependencies
Systems of Record

12. API Management
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Business Involvement
High business involvement
Focus on differentiation
Industry-specific verticals
Connectivity
Make integration capabilities an
important part of the application
selection process
Product-centric
Move away from project-centric
Clear strategic roadmap
Customer-centric
API Management
Integration
Integration
Systems of differentation

13. API Management
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Governance
Employ the right level of
governance at each layer!
Don’t block innovation
Fail fast
Encourage experimentation
and prototyping.
Identify challenges
Mature innovations
Don’t remain stuck in the
prototyping phase!
Get it into production
API Management
Integration
Integration
Systems of innovation

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It’s important to consider the
complete spectrum of integration!

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Gartner’s view on integration

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Monitoring
& operations
Infrastructure
ALM
Integration
Messaging
Security
API‘s
networking
governance
high availability
disaster recovery
reliability
routing
sequencing
queuing
large messages
connectors
workflow
transformation patterns
error handling reliability
message formats
hybrid exchange patterns
extensibility
security
versioning governance webhooks
insights
performance
scalability
monetization
auditing
access keys
access
control
credentials
work planning
source control
release
test
monitoringtracing
reportingalerts extensibility
Integration building blocks

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Systems of record
Systems of differentation
Systems of innovation
Service Bus
Logic Apps
API Management

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Don’t let technology
drive your methodology!

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No blockchain without integration

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AI is a lot more than data science

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Avoid unmanageable integrations

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Pace layered architecture allows
to adapt your business rapidly.