API World 2017

For most organizations today, application integration is being solved with “point-to-point” solutions that spiderweb between apps and services. This is simply an extension of the legacy enterprise integration patterns we’ve seen for 2 decades. But with modern enterprise using more than 1000 cloud-based applications, this point-to-point model doesn’t scale and need to change. Enter Data Hubs. By focusing on the data you care about rather than the interfaces and APIs of your applications - your integration architecture is able to scale, while creating a governance and mediation layer. Data and application integration leaders should develop such a strategy to determine effective mediation of semantics, and to identify data sharing requirements across applications, constituencies and ecosystems.