Enterprise integration has been evolving for several decades and has been going through drastic changes. In this slide deck, we focus on the future trends in enterprise integration and how WSO2 integration addresses these needs.

1. Snr. Director, Solutions Architecture, WSO2
Integration Platform Strategy for Digital
Transformation
Mifan Careem

2. • The changing face of integration strategy
• Characteristics of a modern integration
platform
– Citizen integrators and integration personas
– API-driven integration
– Integration microservices
– Enterprise integration patterns
• Reference architecture for a hybrid integration
platform
Agenda

3. Integration is more than
60% of a digital product.
Integration can be a source
of Competitive
Differentiation with the
right integration or Hybrid
Integration Platform that
can fit the needs of the
organization.
MOM
Data
Integration
ESB
Suites
iPaaS
B2B
Managed File

4. Integration in Organizational Strategy
Integration personas and their impact on integration platform strategy

5. Evolution of Integration Strategy
• Supporting newer digital business
initiatives (Cloud-first, API economy
• Newer deployment models (Cloud)
• Newer programming models (Integration
microservices)
• Newer ownership models (Multi-cloud,
multi-vendor systems)
•Newer constituents (Citizen integrators)
•Newer endpoints (Things, Streams)
•Newer use cases (Stream processing)
•Integration everywhere! (API integration)

6. Characteristics of Modern
Integration Platforms

7. Support for Integration Personas
Digital Integrators
Smart Tooling
Automation
Citizen Integrators
Business Users
Personal Projects
Ad Hoc Integrators
Integrator Specialists
Integration Competency Center
B2B Integration
BU Projects
API Development

8. API-driven Integration Platform

9. • Integration
services published
as APIs
• Applications
subscribe and
consume APIs
• API marketplace
enables
ecosystem of
producers and
consumers
API Marketplaces Enable Ecosystems

10. • Integration moves
from a single layer
to multiple layers of
a digital enterprise
architecture
• E.g. Service
integration, API
integration, IAM
integration, etc.
Integration Everywhere!
Digital
Products
{API}
{API}
{API}
Integration
IAM
IoT
Analytics
Integration
API
Digital
Products
Digital
Products
Services
Systems
Data

11. Integration Everywhere - API Composition
•Composition of
APIs
•Self service
integration by
consumers of
APIs

12. • Reusable
integration best
practices
• Enterprise
integration
patterns, templates,
connectors,
scenarios
Pattern-driven Integration
WSO2 EI
Connectors
Web services
APIs
Filesystems
Messaging
systems
Business
Applications
Partners’
systems
Data
public cloud | private cloud | on-premise

13. Integration Microservices
System
Ɣ
System
ƔService
Foo
Centralized Integration
The ESB style integration where all
of the organizational integration
scenarios are modeled, packaged
and deployed on a centralized
integration unit.
Distributed Integration Microservices
Each integration flow is modeled and
packaged in integration microservices
and scaled individually depending on
capacity demands. This may typically
follow a containerized and
immutable-server-oriented approach.
Centralized Integration Solution
Service
Bar
System
α
System
β
Service
Foo
Integration
microservice
Service
Bar
System
α
System
β
Integration microservice
Vs

14. Integration in a Microservice Architecture
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Analytics
Continuous-*
Security &
Access Management
API / Service discovery
Dev toolsDevops tools
Service router
API Gateway
Core
Microservices
Data
Container(s)
Delivery channels Digital Products
Messaging Channels
Integration
MicroservicesExisting Services

15. Hybrid Integration Platform

16. Hybrid Integration Platform
Integration Specialists Ad Hoc Integrators Citizen Integrators
Integration Templates
Composition/Orchestration
B2B A2A C2B G2G N2N
Data Integration
Communication Protocols, Styles and Patterns
Governance
Operations
Integration tools, wizards, IDE support
Public Cloud Private Cloud On-premise

17. ● Integration is a key component of digital transformation that involves
systems, services, applications, B2B, data sources, things, etc. all of
which need to be efficiently integrated into newer ecosystems.
■ Integration can be a source of Competitive Differentiation with
the right integration or hybrid integration platform that is
extendable, flexible and can fit the needs of the organization.
■ The ability to tailor make integration solutions means the
technology should support standards, support integration
patterns and especially be extendable and flexible.
Integration in Digital Transformation
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