Supporting apps in the cloud and on-premises can be difficult. With the growing need to connect endpoints in various locations, a Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) is crucial. In this session, Gartner and MuleSoft provide best practices to accelerate the establishment of an HIP that supports cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground and on-premises integration in your organization.

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Jess Thompson
The Hybrid Integration Platform:
Foundational Infrastructure for a
Digital Business

2. ICCs are caught
in a deluge.
Conditions will
deteriorate!

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Key Issues
1. What is a hybrid integration platform and what
are its components?
2. How will the hybrid integration platform evolve?

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The Hybrid Integration Platform
Headquarters
LOB Apps Application SuiteLOB Apps
Enterprise
Services
SaaS
Social
Media
Suppliers
Division A
Division A
Customers
Definition:
A hybrid integration platform is on-premises and cloud-based, integration technologies
securely connected so that it supports the integration of on-premises endpoints, cloud
endpoints and the combination of the two, for all integration patterns.
Mobile
Devices
Internet of
Things

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Application Integration Suite Features
Asia/Pacific
Division
Communications
Transformation
Orchestration
Intelligent Routing
Adapters
B2B Gateway
Monitoring,
Management and
Administration

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iPaaS Platform Features
Integration Services
Development Platform
Governance Platform
Life Cycle Management
Platform
Cloudstream Marketplace
Collaboration
Monitoring, Management,
and Administration
Secure Connectivity to
On-premises Platform

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API Management Features
Policy Management
Security, SLAs, …
Policy Enforcement
Central PAP, Distributed PEPs
Security
Security Extensions
Token Mapping, Redaction
Management of
Traffic
Messages
Interfaces
Developer Support
API Customization
Dependency Tracking
Virtual Outer APIs
UIServiceThing
Inner APIs
Svc Svc Svc Svc
Application 1
Service Control Gateway
Inner APIs
Svc Svc Svc Svc
Application 2
Inner APIs
Svc Svc Svc Svc
Application 3
Public APIs

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Key Issues
1. What is a hybrid integration platform and what
are its components?
2. How will the hybrid integration platform evolve?

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Extending a HIP to Establish an IoT Platform
= IoT Localized Device / Data Management, Apps / Analytics, Communications, Security.
IoT Endpoints = Things + = APIs
IoT Business Solution
Orchestration
Data / IM
BI / Analytics
APIs / Integration / MOM
Gateways
Mobile
Partners
IT Apps
IoT Endpoints
IoT Platform Cloud
OT Apps
(ERP, CRM,…) (MES, BMS,…)
Customers
Things
Agents
Communications
APIs / Integration / MOM
Business
Outcomes
Holistic
Aggregated Device Management

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Extending the HIP Even Further
A Multidiscipline Integration Platform
Application Integration Suite
iPaaS Technologies
Data
Transformation
and Integration Orchestra-
tion
Application
Connectivity
Development Security
Administration
Management
and Visibility
Governance
Communications
API Management
In-memory Data Grid
Additive Technologies for Digital Business Initiatives
Intelligent Business Operations Platform
Intelligent BPM Suite Business Rules Management
Event Processing Operational Intelligence Technologies
IoT Technologies Mobile Technologies
Metadata Management and Federation
Hybrid
Integration
Platform

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It's Not Necessary to Have All Features
From One Vendor
Source: "Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Integration Suites," 29 July 2014 (G00266699)
"Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service," 27 January 2015 (G00255649)
“Magic Quadrant for Application Services Governance,” 5 April 2015 (G00270248)
“Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites” 18 March 2015 (G00258612)
L = Leader V = Visionary
C = Challenger N = Niche Player
IBM Oracle
Software
AG
Tibco Microsoft SAP Axway
Mule-
Soft
Informa-
tica
On-Premises
App Integration
MQ
L L L L L L L L
iPaaS MQ V V V L L
App Services
Governance MQ
V C N C L L
Data Integration
Tools MQ
L L C L
Intelligent BPMS
MQ
L V V V

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Recommendations
Next Monday:
- Understand the cloud-based offerings of your integration technology
providers.
- Evaluate whether a HIP, if implemented within your infrastructure, will
provide business benefits. IF SO, THEN:
Your Next 90 Days:
- Identify a use case for a proof-of-concept project ensuring that it will
demonstrate business value.
- Establish a business case for obtaining the needed infrastructure
components.
- Build a prototype hybrid integration platform.
Your Next 12 Months:
- Implement and use your production hybrid integration platform.
- Establish methodologies around managing federated integration domains.
- Continue to identify the benefits and report the results
- Establish a plan for transitioning to a multidiscipline integration platform.

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è Why There's a Move Toward Hybrid Integration
Platforms
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è How to Use Hybrid Integration Platforms Effectively
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è Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application
Integration Suites
Jess Thompson, Yefim V. Natis and others (G00266699)
è Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as
a Service
Massimo Pezzini, Yefim V. Natis and others (G00255649)
è Evaluate Gateway Capabilities Required to Deploy
Software-Defined Architecture for Application
Services
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