Using iPaaS to Expand Integration Capabilities: Lowering Costs and Complexity Through Retirement and Consolidation

admin — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:52:06 +0000

In 2012 Novartis did a strategic evaluation of their middleware strategy which consisted of two traditional, full-featured, on-premises solutions supporting over 140 active integrations. Both were proving slow and expensive to develop and maintain, and the team was spending time and resources on upgrades and maintenance rather than business value.

An integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) offering was used in an initial proof of concept (POC) to connect internal Novartis data with Salesforce.com. The technical approach was to select endpoint interfaces from the iPaaS library and modify them to fit Novartis-specific data mappings. This project took about 25 hours to complete, and saw a 10-fold cost savings over the tools and process they had in place. As a result of this POC, Novartis invested in the iPaaS solution and plans 600-700 integrations, 90% of which are on-premise to on-premise, or A2A, with 10% B2B integration.

Novartis subsequently decided to phase out their legacy integration middleware and starting in 2012, began migrating these integrations to the iPaaS. This year they plan to migrate off their second on-premises middleware system to address compliance risks and to match their cloud-enabled enterprise needs in the future. Novartis is also reducing the number of servers dedicated to integration from 28 to 8. They realized that ETL, EDI, application integration, and cloud integration are converging and an iPaaS solution can meet their requirements, now and into the future, quickly and at a low cost. This presentation will examine Novartis’ story.

Keywords:

cloud

pharmaceuticals

integration

enterprise architecture

Speaker First Name:

Thomas

Speaker Last Name:

Barton

Speaker Job Title:

Global Enterprise Architect and Head of Integration Services

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Novartis

Speaker Bio:

Thomas is a seasoned technology executive with broad-based management experience, leading international teams in Enterprise Architecture consulting, and the real world application of Cloud Computing, Mobility, Middleware Integration, iPaaS, and Business Process Management. As head of Integration Services for Novartis, Thomas is responsible for enterprise middleware at the global level. As a former entrepreneur and CTO, Thomas is an accomplished leader with over 15 years of experience in diverse industry verticals delivering complex technology solutions that meet business needs through partnership, communication and collaboration, with a focus on financial impact and results.

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Redwood Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 10:10

iPaaS case study: Gaining cloud benefits in application integration while maintaining full data security

admin — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:15:43 +0000

A previous presentation at Cloud Slam (“Video Killed the Radio Star and Cloud Computing Will Kill the Programming Star,” Cloud Slam ’11) discussed how the explosion of cloud-callable APIs and simple, intuitive programming tools will empower non-programmers to revolutionize IT through an explosion of situation applications. This represents a new best-of-breed approach for both back-office and front-office applications, enabled by SaaS and knitted together with new middleware and interoperability tools. This presentation will provide a concrete example of a product, Dell Boomi, enabling the trend, and demonstrate with a proof of concept from pharmaceutical giant Novartis how the ideas have become real. Unfettered adoption of the cloud model and realization of cloud benefits means addressing application and data integration, and today’s integration tools must evolve and deploy at the speed of cloud, even while meeting fundamental security and compliance requirements – just like all of the application landscape today.

Keywords:

enterprise infrastructure

Speaker First Name:

Chris

Speaker Last Name:

McNabb

Speaker Job Title:

General Manager, Dell Boomi

Speaker's Company Name/Affiliation:

Dell

Speaker Bio:

Chris joined the Dell Boomi team in 2011 following a 12 year career with SunGard Higher Education. In his prior roles, Chris was SVP of worldwide software development and had responsibility for all software execution, delivery and quality to over 1600 customers. Chris spent two years as a management consultant at a subsidiary of Pennsylvania Blue Shield advising on project management and quality assurance initiatives to improve development execution. Chris started his career in software development in the financial services sector holding various engineering and management roles. Chris attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (MIS) and Villanova (Business).

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n/a

Monterey Room

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 13:20

6th annual Cloud Slam 2014 Cloud Computing Conference, San Francisco CA, June 4, 2014. Cloud Computing Events 2014 - pharmaceuticals

Using iPaaS to Expand Integration Capabilities: Lowering Costs and Complexity Through Retirement and Consolidation

iPaaS case study: Gaining cloud benefits in application integration while maintaining full data security