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Book Description

In the race to compete in today’s fast-moving markets, large enterprises are busy adopting new technologies for creating new products, processes, and business models. But one obstacle on the road to digital transformation is placing too much emphasis on technology, and not enough on the types of processes technology enables. What if different lines of business could build their own services and applications—and decision-making was distributed rather than centralized?



This report explores the concept of a digital business platform as a way of empowering individual business sectors to act on data in real time. Much innovation in a digital enterprise will increasingly happen at the edge, whether it involves business users (from marketers to data scientists) or IoT devices. To facilitate the process, your core IT team can provide these sectors with the digital tools they need to innovate quickly.



This report explores:

  • Key cultural and organizational changes for developing business capabilities through cross-functional product teams
  • A platform for integrating applications, data sources, business partners, clients, mobile apps, social networks, and IoT devices
  • Creating internal API programs for building innovative edge services in low- code or no-code environments
  • Tools including Integration Platform as a Service, Application Platform as a Service, and Integration Software as a Service
  • The challenge of integrating microservices and serverless architectures
  • An integration solution for a digital business platform that serves every audience in your organization

Table of Contents

  1. Integration and the Path to Becoming a Digital Business
    1. Why You Need a Digital Business Platform
    2. Culture and Digital Transformation
      1. Core Versus Edge IT
      2. A Shared Cloud Governance Team
    3. A Hybrid Integration Platform for Digital Transformation
      1. Microservices, Containers, and APIs
      2. Core Integration Needs
      3. Edge Integration Needs
    4. API Management
      1. APIs Are Products
      2. The API Life Cycle
      3. Scalability, Security, and Support
    5. Tools for Edge Integrators
      1. iPaaS for Line-of-Business Developers
      2. aPaaS for Citizen Developers
      3. iSaaS for Citizen Integrators
    6. Microservices to Serverless
      1. Challenges of Microservices
      2. Microservices Tooling
      3. Serverless Architectures
    7. Event-Driven Architectures
      1. Event-Driven Technologies
      2. Tooling for Event-Driven Systems
      3. Event-Driven API Management
    8. Edge Intelligence and the IoT
      1. Event-Driven API Management with Mashling
      2. Edge Intelligence with Flogo
    9. A Complete Pervasive Integration Solution