How to Tell if Your Integration Solution is a Trojan Horse (and why you can t ignore the need for an unbiased pervasive integration solution)

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1 How to Tell if Your Integration Solution is a Trojan Horse (and why you can t ignore the need for an unbiased pervasive integration solution) Modern integration is pervasive: The integration issue is not confined to a narrow set of use cases within an organization s four walls. Integration is now pervasive because it empowers many aspects of the digital transformation journey, including ecosystems and the API economy. Massimo Pezzini, VP Research, Gartner How Pervasive Integration Enables Your API Initiatives (and Vice Versa) Integration solutions have evolved beyond simply connecting monolithic systems within the boundaries of an organization. Integration has also become the pervasive connective tissue inherent in all modern applications, APIs, microservices, and functions to enable digital transformation and business agility across the enterprise. To truly enable digital transformation, you need a platform modern and flexible enough to connect systems and people beyond IT and the four walls of your company. It must be able to connect edge and IoT devices, partner ecosystems, citizen developers, legacy and the modern cloud, and future developments. Finally, the platform should come from a vendor that focuses on integration, without hidden agendas or biases that result in compromises. However, not all integration solutions are able to deliver these capabilities. In fact, some can be considered Trojan horses, presented as beautiful gifts but actually the source of big troubles. These misleading integration solutions claim to support your needs, but lack many of the capabilities necessary to enable true pervasive integration. They are unable to create an environment that empowers all users and fully leverages next generation architectures. LIMITED TO A NARROW SET OF TRADITIONAL USE CASES LACKS CAPABILITIES TO SERVE DIFFERENT AUDIENCE NEEDS FOR TRUE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION DATED AND SLOW TO ADOPT MODERN ARCHITECTURE HIGHER-TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP TROJAN HORSE INTEGRATION PLATFORM LACKS NEUTRALITY AND INNOVATION IN INTEGRATION Here are five signs that your integration solution may be a Trojan horse. If any of these apply be sure to push it outside the castle walls and call us. 1. THE SOLUTION ONLY SUPPORTS A NARROW SET OF USERS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. Trojan horse solutions typically focus on commercial application integration and don t have sufficient breadth to empower non-technical business users or modern application developers to build and integrate custom enterprise applications. This inability to support a broader set of users will inhibit business agility.

2 DATASHEET 2 Instead, a true pervasive integration platform enables all users to participate in digital business processes. It allows developers to build modern API-led and microservicesbased applications that span multiple data sources, devices, and services running across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures. It also enables non-technical users to participate in digital transformation by building simple process apps without writing any code. Enabling a broader set of users means your business can be more agile and efficient. Business Users No offerings for business users to build process apps without writing any code Enterprise IT Dated offerings with limited ability to deploy across modern channels such as cloud marketplaces and edge devices Developers No offerings for developers to accelerate microservices development across cloud and edge device platforms Trojan horse solutions lack support for business users and modern developers 2. RELIANCE ON ESB-PATTERNS RATHER THAN SUPPORT FOR MODERN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES. You can identify a Trojan horse solution by its stubborn adherence to the status quo. Rather than embracing change to augment the core suite, they add features to the same heavy-duty ESB infrastructure, in a one-size-fits-all approach, making it even more difficult for your business to evolve. To ensure business agility, developers need to compose enterprise apps from various services running across distributed environments. Far more than application connectivity, your integration platform should help developers exploit the flexibility and benefits of modern architecture patterns microservices, eventdriven APIs, and (serverless) function-as-a-service, to build the next generation of enterprise applications that power compelling end-user experiences. FULL INTEGRATION STACK TROJAN HORSE Trojan horse solutions lack critical capabilities for pervasive integration

3 DATASHEET 3 3. THE SOLUTION IS BASED ON DATED ARCHITECTURE, AND DOES NOT INCORPORATE MODERN TECHNOLOGY. Trojan horse solutions don t offer much in the way of modern, lightweight components that enable new use cases beyond simple application connectivity and standard deployment support. They continue to add technical debt and pricey addons resulting in increased license, implementation, and maintenance costs. A true pervasive integration platform leverages modern technologies, such as Go, to augment your existing investments, enable more efficient use of computing resources, and employ edge computing architectures. By leveraging functionas-a-service, integration flows on IoT devices, and other emerging architecture patterns, you can solve business challenges with a broader portfolio of options and lower total cost of ownership. $0.70 INFRASTRUCTURE COST OF 1 APP/DAY $0.60 $0.62 $0.62 $0.50 $0.40 $0.30 $0.20 $0.10 $0.00 < $0.01 PROJECT FLOGO 1 $0.04 SPRING 2 $0.10 BWCE 3 $0.08 JBOSS WILDFLY 4 $0.14 JBOSS FUSE 5 MULESOFT MULESOFT COMMUNITY 6 ENTERPRISE 7 Trojan horse solutions have hidden costs due to bloated or dated technology Flogo (crmadrig/flogoapp) 2 Spring (springio/gs-spring-boot-docker) 3 BWCE (crmadrig/helloworld:2.3.2-slim) 4 Jboss Wildfly (crmadrig/jboss-wildfly-helloworld) 5 Jboss Fuse (dwi67/jboss-fuse-6.3-admin) 6 Mule Community (wslph/mule:3.9.0-ce) 7 Mule Enterprise (wslph/mule:3.9.0-ee)

4 DATASHEET 4 4. YOU ARE LIMITED TO A NARROW SET OF USE CASES. Trojan horses typically struggle to evolve beyond the traditional ESB integration paradigms. They offer solutions that are tailored for IT management, with limited scope to support broader, innovative digital transformation use cases. That means you ll need other solutions to meet your evolving integration needs, creating unnecessary system fragmentation and a counter-productive environment. A pervasive integration platform supports a wide variety of uses cases to accelerate digital transformation. Developers can employ innovations like microservices and machine learning running on edge devices to build innovative IoT solutions, which are far outside the scope of traditional Trojan horse platforms. Without writing code, business users can easily build apps that leverage underlying integration flows and APIs for powerful, time-saving process automation. This means IT can empower employees anywhere to participate in digital transformation, without becoming a bottleneck. Cannot Support True IoT Edge Integration Architecture is based on large footprint foundation, that cannot be deployed to low-resource edge devices Cannot Support App Integration Microservices Platform is missing fundamental components for true microservices and FaaS development Cannot Support Shared Services Platform is missing support for business user audience to build process apps Trojan horse solutions lack support for broader, strategic use cases 5. THE VENDOR LACKS NEUTRALITY AND INNOVATION IN INTEGRATION. Trojan horse solutions are unable to remain unbiased, nor do they have a proven track record in integration technology innovation. This is because they are followers, with significantly less industry expertise, and a lack of truly innovative offerings. If your integration platform comes from a company whose primary business model is not based on offering integration, but rather a provider of business applications, or infrastructure services, or even operating systems, then they are not neutral or unbiased in their mission to offer a best-in-class integration solution. This means they are unable to deliver the bold advancements in technology to help your business lead and succeed. Application vendors, in particular, have an agenda that serves their primary interest of simply selling more of their application software. Furthermore, these vendors have a fundamental conflict of interest in building integration that helps data move freely from their applications to competitors. This means that their integration platform roadmap is driven by their application agenda, which is to retain your data within their system of record as much as possible, resulting in an inferior integration offering.

5 DATASHEET 5 Building modern, mission critical applications to power complex business transactions is not something to be taken lightly. When selecting a platform for building these applications, ensure you select a time-tested, unbiased, and proven vendor who has successfully and continuously delivered mission critical solutions for thousands of businesses. TIBCO Trojan Horse First Pervasive Integration Company to: Introduce messaging technology Support containerized deployments Introduce multi-cloud integration Support microservices developers Support IoT lightweight edge devices Enable cloud marketplace deployment Support serverless and FaaS deployments Invent API management now hosting the world s largest cloud API platform with over 1.6 billion API calls every day Follower / laggard: Not available yet across all clouds No developer microservices solutions Too heavy for edge devices No serverless and FaaS support, legacy Laggard Trojan horse vendors are laggards in innovation DON T IGNORE THE SIGNS If any of these characteristics apply to your current solution, it s time to push out your Trojan horse before it s too late. Don t subject your business to higher total cost of ownership and lack of consistent innovation and thought leadership. Refuse to limit your business to a narrow set of use cases, restricted capabilities, and dated technology. Instead, adopt a solution that is capable of accelerating your business on its path to digital transformation. Choose a vendor that enables true pervasive integration for both your current and future needs. For a complete guide to implementing a true pervasive integration solution, download the O Reilly Digital Business Ebook. Ready for the true pervasive integration solution? Try TIBCO Cloud Integration free for 30 days. Global Headquarters 3307 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA TEL FAX TIBCO fuels digital business by enabling better decisions and faster, smarter actions through the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud. From APIs and systems to devices and people, we interconnect everything, capture data in real time wherever it is, and augment the intelligence of your business through analytical insights. Thousands of customers around the globe rely on us to build compelling experiences, energize operations, and propel innovation. Learn how TIBCO makes digital smarter at , TIBCO Software Inc. All rights reserved. TIBCO, the TIBCO logo, and TIBCO Cloud are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and company names and marks in this document are the property of their respective owners and mentioned for identification purposes only. 03/22/18