{"id":8,"date":"2015-11-15T01:51:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T01:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/?p=4"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T05:16:17","slug":"what-are-the-benefits-of-cloud-based-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"What are the benefits of Cloud based integration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of hype around Cloud Integration at the moment and perhaps most of you already know or have an idea of what it is, but I thought I would write a few words anyway and explain what benefits can be achieved with this approach to data integration.<\/p>\n<p>In the old days (or a few years ago) data integration software was mainly hosted on-premise and external electronic B2B transactions were sent via value-added networks (VANs). For traditional EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions this still seem to be the de facto standard used.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the emergence of more SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) offerings such as Salesforce.com and others, the requirement arose for a simple way to interchange data with other systems, such as internal legacy systems, and cloud based integration was born.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud based integration may not solve all problems when it comes to data integration, but it is definitely a step in the right direction, with many benefits over the traditional in-house approach. Most Cloud integration vendors are offering features such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elastic infrastructure that allows for seamless scalability with increase in demand<\/li>\n<li>Pre-built Connectors for many software packages means significantly less development<\/li>\n<li>Subscription based pricing means you only pay for what you use<\/li>\n<li>Secure and encrypted data traffic removes the requirements of VAN infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Highly resilient with built-in redundancy<\/li>\n<li>Web based monitoring from anywhere<\/li>\n<li>Multiple data centres across the globe for increased performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With Cloud based integration, better networks and higher transfer speeds, I think we will see a lot more of real-time global enterprise data traffic where geographical boundaries will play a less significant role and diverse applications are instantly exchanging information across the world as changes occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of hype around Cloud Integration at the moment and perhaps most of you already know or have an idea of what it is, but I thought I would write a few words anyway and explain what benefits can be achieved with this approach to data integration. In the old days (or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What are the benefits of Cloud based integration?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrationwizards.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}