Jason Bloomberg has kicked of a series of posts this week focused on Enterprise Architecture (EA) and the increasingly important role of Enterprise Architects. His first EA Communique is: Supporting the ‘Citizen Integrator’ with Enterprise Architecture. When it comes to the need for self-service integration, he notes:
“Traditional integration tooling is IT-centric, typically requiring deep technical knowledge. EAs must instead be able to recommend tools like SnapLogic whose ease of use facilitates citizen integrators, while simultaneously supporting the governance needs of the IT organization.
Tools like SnapLogic shift the context for enterprise integration away from how ‘traditional’ IT has thought about integration: middleware-centric and complicated, and therefore slow and inflexible. Yes, the danger here once again is falling into the bimodal trap: if ‘slow’ IT remains in control of integration, then people will find ways around it – invariably leading to governance issues.”
You can read the full write up here.
Read the entire article at http://www.snaplogic.com/blog/self-service-integration-in-the-spotlight-at-gartneraadi/
