While plug-and-play applications may be in our future as more SaaS providers embed integration technology into their applications, it's not yet a reality in most cases.
Improving Project Success
Integration lifecycle management improves project success by lowering ownership costs, ensuring faster response to issues, increasing staffing flexibility as well as business agility.
Cloud application adoption has increased the need for integration, but has also put a ceiling on the costs that organizations will pay for well-integrated applications. Organizations must adjust their development and management approach to keep their integration costs below that ceiling. An integration lifecycle management approach improves the likelihood of project success by lowering total cost of ownership, increasing responsiveness, increasing the ability for staff to support integrations and allowing the business to change more quickly.