Stumbled on the interesting blog by Benoit Lheureux of Gartner. I really expect to have “Integration in the cloud” or “Integration-As-A-Service”. And Benoit blog entries are in line with what I expect to happen. Some sort of Value Added Networks (VANs) that (re-appear) in the cloud.
Benoit talks about interesting topcis such as:
- exchanging good old EDI via the cloud
- cooperation of IBM and Hubspan: WebSpan
- Google Data Connector
- API’s of Saas providers
- …