If you take the last 10 years, many things have changed. The next 10 years will be no different. However, some key concepts such as integration are very unlikely to change. But, interestingly, this does not mean that you can build a system that lasts for decades, since the integration you had 10 years ago is not the kind of integration you have today and never will be the one you want to have in 10 years time. While working with customers of varied levels of maturity there is a lot we have learned as a vendor. In this talk we will discuss how some companies managed to keep carrying their legacy baggage for decades while others were able to keep iterating to a level where they never found themselves outdated. But, just like technology, there is also an impact on the business. The more you innovate the more you may end up spending and similarly, the less you innovate the more you’d be spending again. There is a fine line between innovation and stagnation where you spend the least and gain the most. This is the perfect line of iteration that any business wants to be aligned with. There is a lot to learn from others successes and failures and this talk is mostly focusing on that. We’ll take many case-studies to learn the past, present and future of enterprise integration and how to find the fine line of iterative improvement that best suits the kind of business you are in.

1. Enterprise Integration:
The Past, Present and Future
Senaka Fernando
Solutions Architect, WSO2 (UK)

2. Agenda
o Enterprise Integration from 2006 – 2026
o State of Integration in 2016 – examples from
typical organizations
o Meeting Challenges of the Connected World
o Conclusion, Q&A

3. The Stone-age, 
oImage: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Каменный_век_(1).jpg

4. The Stone-age, 
Image: http://web.tiscali.it/nsde1/_informatica/39.jpg

5. Late 20th Century
o Some companies started Enterprise Integration
in the 1960s.
o While most of these were bespoke, there were
some patterns that repeated.
o Early Integration Platforms appeared in the
1980s/1990s.
o Frameworks and SDKs followed.

6. Image: http://www.mbugmovie.com/images/wallpapers/millennium_bug_C_1400x1050.jpg

7. The last 10 years
o Services: XML  SOAP  WS-*  REST
o Applications: 3-Tier  n-Tier
o Infrastructure: On-Premise  Cloud 
Container
o Devices: PC  Smart  Tablets  IoT
o Standards: ISO, W3C, OASIS, JSR, …
o Humans: We are almost at the same place, 

8. The Connected Business
Customers
Partners
Potential
Customers/Partners
Employees
Internal
Systems
External
Systems
Image: http://jdamico.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/collaborate-with-B2B-channel-partners.jpg

9. The next 10 years
o Data as a Currency
o Capabilities over APIs
o Polyglot Architectures
o Microservices (note: Spellchecker still thinks it is
wrong, )
o Humans can remain almost the same, but
Businesses can’t (ex:- Nokia)

10. Business Challenge: Legacy Systems
Image: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01535/luggage_1535816c.jpg

11. Practical Experience: Architect’s View
Image: https://solo3d.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/garage-by-dengo-1.jpg

12. Practical Experience: Business’ View
Image: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/18/article-1304097-0ABF8CB2000005DC-576_634x307.jpg

13. Business Challenge: Innovation
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1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100211231358

14. Practical Experience: Controlled Demolition
Image: http://2irfbl23rse12dglqd39cw6v.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-
content/uploads/2013/06/DSC_2038GovernorsIslandBuildingImplosionAL.jpg

15. The Typical Project
o Involves the right balance of:
1. Requirements/Needs
2. Technology/Tools
3. Innovation
4. People/Participation
5. Investment
o The Key is Iteration.

16. The “Not So Easy” Things
o Project Governance – It is much more than
Carrots and Sticks
o Introducing Change
o Managing the Typical Risks
1. Last-minute features and split-second deadlines
2. Just the right amount of people
3. Lost knowledge

17. The Biggest Integration Challenge
o Making internal and external (B2B, B2C, B2D,
B2G, …) integration possible
… despite all other challenges
… with the least investment (time & money)
… while making all of it last for generations
o In layman’s terms: Making the impossible possible

18. How to Become a Connected Business

19. WSO2: Connects Anything to Anything
Increase your Pace of Connectedness
The WSO2 enterprise middleware platform enables businesses to
build and launch innovative products and services that eclipse the
competition.

20. Integration: From Football to ESB
Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRI6buQ0NOM

21. Yet Another Integration Platform?

23. 3 Key Takeaways
o Integration is not a new problem and will never be
an old problem – it just changes face
o Every modern business needs to be a connected
business
o Iteration is key to keeping up with enterprise
challenges

24. CONTACT US
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Please drop in @ our booth on the 5th floor