Informatica On Demand

Posted by John Hegstrom in: News and Events

We just wrapped up two days at SaaScon 2007 in Santa Clara, CA. It was amazing to hear so many presenters at this year’s conference talking about the economic advantages of the SaaS model. End-user's raved about how easy it is to implement and use SaaS applications. Service providers talked about how multi-tenancy allows them to concentrate all of their R&D efforts on building new features rather than porting to other technology stacks. It seems clear that the SaaS model is not just a fad, it is widely viewed as a fundamental change in the way software is built and delivered.

In my presentation I made some recommendations about how SaaS providers can provide superior integration capabilities that will accelerate the adoption of SaaS.

My recommendations included:

• Expose workflow and events in their API's that allow customers to link business processes across multiple applications and platforms
• Provide the ability for users to access data that is created and managed in other applications, in both batch and real-time modes
• Publish events and provide call-outs to support data quality extensions
• Provide robust and complete API's that can be used for data migration, real-time workflow and process integration, and on-going synchronization
• Solve the "firewall problem"

I ended my presentation with a brief discussion about Informatica's strategy for on-demand data integration, including a brief discussion about how we have solved the "firewall problem" with the Informatica Secure Agent. It's clear that companies want to use a combination of on-premise and on-demand applications. Secure data integration through the firewall will be an important enabler for the continued growth of SaaS.

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