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SaaS applications integration: Strategies and best practices for success
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App integration woes: Pain is still acute with cloud
In this Cloud Developments column, Executive Editor Jan Stafford explains the promise -- and potential pitfalls -- of application integration in SaaS and other cloud deployments. Read Now
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Beat challenges of integrating SaaS apps
Contributor Crystal Bedell shares advice from the experts on taking an architecture approach to determining how SaaS fits into an organization's existing configuration. Read Now
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Avoid SaaS data integration costs
When it comes to the price, here's advice on avoiding the costly application-management problems that are sometimes involved with migrating to a SaaS environment. Read Now
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On-premises vs. SaaS
Contributor Bill Claybrook takes a side-by-side look at the two approaches, comparing factors in several areas, including application integration. Read Now
Editor's note
No question: Integrating cloud-based and on-premises applications can be a challenging endeavor. This Essential Guide, packed with expert advice from SearchCloudApplications and other TechTarget sites, explains how to do the job effectively. Read the content, listen to the podcasts, view the videos, browse the glossary -- and test your knowledge with a quick SaaS quiz.
1SaaS app integration strategies and tools
Learn about SaaS application integration tools and management tips. Get the latest news and all the "FAQs" in this SaaS app integration strategies and solutions section.
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New tools for SaaS app integration
Learn how companies can make on-premises and cloud applications play well together. Read Now
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SaaS integration drives cloud app adoption
SearchConsumerization News Editor James Furbush notes that successful use of SaaS applications hinges on effectively integrating those apps. Read Now
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FAQ: SaaS application management
Writing for SearchDataManagement, contributor Delaney Rebernik answers commonly asked questions about managing multiple SaaS applications and vendors. Read Now
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Approaching data integration in SaaS cloud
Analyst Denis Pombriant addresses this question: What data integration features, services and assurances should we expect a SaaS provider to offer? Read Now
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What is Software as a Service?
Jeff Kaplan, managing director of the THINKstrategies consulting firm, discusses issues that businesses should consider before adopting SaaS, including making the approach work with legacy applications. Read Now
2SaaS app integration videos
Watch and learn from experts as they discuss Software as a Service, applications and integrations. Software experts provide insights on tools and best practices in this section. Tune in to get answers to these questions and more: How does SaaS work with legacy applications? What does SaaS mean for the future of packaged software? Is there a difference between an ASP and SaaS?
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Introduction to the SaaS landscape
In this video, THINKstrategies Managing Director Jeff Kaplan offers an overview of the world of SaaS applications. Watch Now
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SaaS applications and integration
In this short video, Jeff Kaplan discusses the differences between and on-premises approach and SaaS and the tools that are used to pull the two environments together. Watch Now
3SaaS application integration terms to know
What exactly is SaaS? What is cloud computing? Fine-tune your knowledge with this glossary of relevant terms.
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application
An application, also referred to as an application program or application software, is a computer software package that performs a specific function directly for an end user or, in some cases, for another application. Read Now
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application integration (enterprise application integration or EAI)
Application integration (sometimes called enterprise application integration or EAI) is the process of bringing data or a function from one application program together with that of another application program. Read Now
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application program interface (API)
An application program interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other. Read Now
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cloud computing
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Read Now
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cloud integration
Cloud integration is the act of combining different cloud-based systems into an integral whole. The term may also refer to joining cloud-based systems with on-premises systems. Read Now
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EAI (enterprise application integration)
Enterprise application integration (EAI) is the task of uniting the databases and workflows associated with business applications to ensure that the business uses the information consistently and that changes to core business data made by one application are correctly reflected in others. Read Now
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legacy application
A legacy application (legacy app) is a software program that is outdated or obsolete. Read Now
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middleware
Middleware is the software that connects network-based requests generated by a client to the back-end data the client is requesting. Read Now
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multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of a software application serves multiple customers. Each customer is called a tenant. Tenants may be given the ability to customize some parts of the application, such as color of the user interface (UI) or business rules, but they cannot customize the application's code. Read Now
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public cloud
A public cloud is a platform that uses the standard cloud computing model to make resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), applications or storage, available to users remotely. Read Now
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private cloud (internal cloud or corporate cloud)
Private cloud is a type of cloud computing that delivers similar advantages to public cloud, including scalability and self-service, but through a proprietary architecture. Read Now