Integration and the Path to Becoming a Digital Business

Every company is now a software company. Digital transformation allows even large enterprises to adapt to changes in markets and customers at lightning speed, responding with new products, new processes, and new business models. After decades of outsourcing IT, every enterprise must now solve complex business problems with software. Digital transformation doesn’t just require new technology; it requires a new, more agile mindset. Every line of business must have access to digital tools needed to innovate at the edge, and it’s the job of the core IT team to provide them.

Digital transformation relies on connecting data and systems, people and processes. Integration technologies have traditionally formed the nervous system of a large enterprise, connecting systems and moving data. But the human nervous system doesn’t just connect and sense; it also acts on data in real time. A digital business technology platform augments the intelligence of a digital business by building on its ability to connect and sense, to learn and act automatically, and enables the next stage of your digital transformation.

Unlike a biological nervous system, an enterprise’s digital business technology platform will reach beyond the traditional boundaries of the business to run in the cloud or on devices within the Internet of Things (IoT). A digital business platform will build on traditional integration technologies, extending them to deal with microservices, ...