Introduction
In today’s economy, cutting costs while increasing productivity is critical to achieving a competitive advantage and ultimatelysuccess. As a result, companies are turning to Software as aService (SaaS) and cloud-based applications to decrease costs anddrive productivity. In order to realize their full value, these newcloud-based applications need to be connected in order to sharebusiness-critical data in real time wherever it resides; in otherSaaS applications, on-premise systems or any other data store.Recent analyst studies by Gartner, Saugatuck Technology andIDC predict the explosive growth of SaaS at a 27percent com-pound annual growth rate with revenues exceeding $55.5billionby 2014. And it’s no surprise that according to Forrester andSaugatuck Technology, integration issues are among the top concerns regarding SaaS adoption.As a result, many software-based application integration prod-ucts have emerged to address the challenges today’s organiza-tions are facing. In many cases, these solutions are repackagedversions of the same offerings from these vendors—based on anolder architecture which predates the advent of SaaS technology.Not only have these options consistently proven to be too complex for companies that do not have the in-house resourcesto learn and implement such middleware platforms, but they can also equate to a further drain in productivity, given the fact that they often require two or more data sources to maintain inorder address the singular challenge of connecting a SaaS and onpremise application. This often prompts organizations to evalu-ate the option of home-grown, custom-coded alternatives whichsolve integration problems in the short-term but lead to highercosts over time due to the lack of scalability and reusability.

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