Cloud Computing Changes Data Integration Forever: What's Needed Right Now
David S. Linthicum · IEEE Cloud Computing · 2017
20 years after writing Enterprise Application Integration, data integration is still an afterthought when it comes to the cloud deployments I see. Enterprises moving to cloud tend to focus on the move itself, and not as much on what they need when they get there. While this may be a common practice, it's not a best practice. Data integration is needed because we just re-hosted some of our data on a remote cloud service. Thus, the inventory system that's still running on a mainframe in the data center needs to share data with the sales order system that's now on AWS. In other words, our data integration problem domain just got bigger and more complex.