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The Year of Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Adoption, DevOps and APIs
By Zeev Avidan, OpenLegacy Chief Product Officer
OpenLegacy pioneered Digital-Driven Integration as a way to handle the most complex part of application integrations-the connections with legacy systems, mainframes, applications and databases. Based on dozens of years in the legacy space, we realized this need was not adequately met by current vendors. Most often, vendors can handle integrations well except for this critical, complex part of the process. Yet most established organizations rely on legacy technology to run their business. We found a way to do these integrations far faster than any other current method so companies can be agile and innovative today and more easily migrate off the legacy system in the future. It’s a solution for today-and tomorrow.
Integration is a key component of digital transformation. Systems need to work with one another as they transform into their end state. This is more widely recognized than ever as new systems evolve. Companies also want to future proof their investment as technology changed over the years from monolithic to ESBs to microservices and now some people look at serverless functions. How can enterprises keep up with the changes?
- Hybrid cloud adoption at enterprises will accelerate as companies embrace support for core systems
To satisfy the need for faster digital transformations enterprises need to embrace their core (legacy) systems in new ways. Hybrid cloud infrastructure that incorporates both cloud aspects and legacy systems working together as a unified whole without users needing to care about where one finishes and the next begins.
This unified solution only works when the legacy logic and data is easily accessible through cloud-native services in an automated way. Many enterprises now recognize the need to take this hybrid approach and simplify how they work with legacy systems.
- Integration will be understood as a key component of DevOps
Over the last few years we saw the growth in adoption of DevSecOps and DataOps. Both of these are important but even bigger is bringing integration into the DevOps process. This new paradigm is called IntegrationOps.
Integration is critical since the process involves way too many people and components. This gets faster through automation and leads to improved time to market and better support of customers.
- Enterprises will move away from low-level system APIs
Low-level systems APIs are the bane of many enterprises’ existences. These APIs cost money to maintain, change frequently and respond slower to requests. One goal of microservices is to encapsulate the functionality and expose services that help the business perform better.
Companies need to create higher level system APIs but most tools expose legacy assets directly as APIs. This means those APIs levels are set by the underlying architecture. This changes as platforms bring the legacy integration metadata inside microservices and allow companies to add multiple legacy assets into services to build system APIs that support business needs.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
As Chief Product Officer, Zeev defines the roadmap of OpenLegacy’s Microservice-based API Integration & Management Software, aligns software features with the market and brings the software to life. Zeev ensures that OpenLegacy’s product delivers the right features to meet customers’ growing needs. During his more than 15 years of experience, Zeev has held leadership positions, delivering information technology solutions within enterprise IT departments and in companies that provide consulting services- most recently at the leading credit card company Isracard and Hilan Tech. He also served as a senior consultant in the Israel Defense Force, dealing with advanced computing systems.
