Gartner Application Strategies & Solutions Summit

Summit 2017
4 – 6 December 2017 / Las Vegas, NV

HIP-Enabling Technologies Including MBS,

API Management, iPaaS: Which Should Your
Team Choose?
Marty Resnick
@marty_Resnick

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 Integration
comes in
many shapes
and sizes

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Key Issues

1. Why is API mediation central to the hybrid integration platform (HIP)?

2. What solutions are available for API mediation in the HIP?
3. How can you balance short-term integration use cases with
long-term investment?

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Key Issues

1. Why is API mediation central to the hybrid integration platform (HIP)?

2. What solutions are available for API mediation in the HIP?
3. How can you balance short-term integration use cases with
long-term investment?

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APIs Are Central to Digital Business

Web Mobile Partners

Logical API
Mediation
Layer

*
Devices

Inner APIs Outer APIs

*IoT communications may be based on web APIs, or with other patterns, such as EDA using MQTT and AMQP.
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APIs Also Enable a Continuous User Experience

Physical

Expanded
I/O Virtual
Channels

Contextual Apps
and Services
Move Personalized for Each
When Electronic
I Move Task and Behavior
Across the Dynamic
Device Mesh

Adaptive Multiple
Contextual Devices
Seamless
Flow
Beyond apps …
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All this integration can get
messy. How do we clean it up?

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Enter the Hybrid Integration Platform
Role-Based User Experience

Integration Specialist Ad Hoc Integrator Citizen Integrator HIP Administrator

Governance: Prepackaged Integration Content Operations:

 API Policy Management  Administration
 APIs and Integration Orchestration  Monitoring
Services Catalog  Management
 Life Cycle Management Integration Scenarios Support  Security
 Metadata Management
 Data Quality A2A B2B Cloud Service Mobile App IoT
 Tracking
 Operational Analytics
Core Application and Data Integration Capabilities

Communication Styles and Protocols

Deployment Models

On-Premises Hybrid Cloud Embedded

See: "Innovation Insight for Hybrid Integration Platforms" (G00324068)

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API Mediation Is One of the Essential Capabilities of the HIP

Web Mobile Partners Devices

*
 Security
Logical API Mediation Layer  Traffic Management
API Gateways ESBs iPaaS  Orchestration
 Monitoring
 Monetization
Application Services  Developer Support

Micro-, Mini- and Macroservices Packaged Product APIs

Inner APIs Outer APIs

See: "Design an API Mediation Layer to Underpin Your Digital Business Technology Platform" (G00323828)
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Key Issues

1. Why is API mediation central to the hybrid integration platform (HIP)?

2. What solutions are available for API mediation in the HIP?
3. How can you balance short-term integration use cases with
long-term investment?

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The Options for Implementing Mediated APIs

 Multiple products implement

mediated APIs …
 Which one should you choose?

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When Should You Choose Full Life Cycle API Management?
 Choose full life cycle API management if your core objectives are:
– Governance,
– Promotion, and
– Life cycle management of APIs

Planning Design Deploy & Run Advanced Versioning

Workshops, API operational IoT support,

"API first" or API
alignment with management, advanced security,
generated versioning
digital strategies, security, format analytics to
from existing and
business model translation and measure API
infrastructure retirement
definition usage metrics business value

Full life cycle

See "Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management," 27 October 2016 (G00277632)
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Strengths of API Management

Cloud/SaaS B2B Mobile apps

APIs APIs

Location,
REST/SOAP/ Mobile notifications,
Cloud adapters
XML Support SDK, etc.
Caching,
orchestration, Meditated APIs: Mediated APIs: API
security, developer Developer
monitoring, Policy management Payload and Protocol engagement
and enforcement manipulation portal
transformation
Key
ERP, Enterprise Strong support:
mainframe adapters Partial support, may be adequate
Limited or no support:

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When Should You Choose iPaaS?

 Adopt iPaaS for cloud and on-premises

integration, and/or the creation of APIs from
existing applications and data
 iPaaS products target the specific problem
of handling the three core integration
patterns in a cloud-managed platform as a
service (PaaS):
1. Data synchronization
2. Multistep processes
3. Service composition

 Increasingly provides API management also

See "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide," 24 March 2016 (G00277000)
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Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Cloud/SaaS B2B Mobile apps

APIs APIs

Location,
REST/SOAP/ Mobile notifications,
Cloud adapters
XML Support SDK, etc.
Caching,
orchestration, Meditated APIs: Mediated APIs: API
security, developer Developer
monitoring, Policy management Payload and Protocol engagement
and enforcement manipulation portal
transformation
Key
ERP, Enterprise Strong support:
mainframe adapters Partial support, may be adequate
Limited or no support:

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When Should You Choose Mobile Back-End Services?

 Use mobile back-end services if your initiatives are primarily mobile

 MBS is used to: Design Tools RMADs MADP Front Ends Containers Web Adaptation
Front-End
Tools
– Connect apps to
Prototyping Tools Open Source Web Frameworks App Wrapping API Tools

business systems Mixed Control

APIs

APIs

APIs

APIs

APIs

APIs

APIs

APIs
Value IT-Controlled
– Use push Delivery

notifications and Location Integration

Data
Orchestration
Database
Hosting
Data
Encryption
IAM Versioning
Mobile
mobile IdM services Push
Notifications
Offline Data
Synchronization
API
Management
API Discovery APM
Hosted
Development
Back-End
Services

– Make back-end Collaboration OS

Containers
Container
Manager
Testing
Behavioral
Analytics
Operational
Analytics

systems transparent
Microservices Connector Connector Connector Connector Connector
to the mobile developer
Third-Party ERP CRM Supply Chain HR Scheduling
Systems of
Cloud Services Record

See "Market Guide for Mobile Back-End Services," 15 June 2017 (G00276411)
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Mobile Back-End Services

Cloud/SaaS B2B Mobile apps

APIs APIs

Location,
REST/SOAP/ Mobile notifications,
Cloud adapters
XML Support SDK, etc.
Caching,
orchestration, Meditated APIs: Mediated APIs: API
security, developer Developer
monitoring, Policy management Payload and Protocol engagement
and enforcement manipulation portal
transformation
Key
ERP, Enterprise Strong support:
mainframe adapters Partial support, may be adequate
Limited or no support:

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Putting It All Together: Capability Matrix

Mobile Back-End
Capability API Management iPaaS
Services
API creation

API life cycle management

Mobile-specific capabilities (offline, location, etc.)

Front-end developer SDKs

Prebuilt cloud service data connectors

On-premises data connectors

API developer enablement

Data/Message mapping and transformation

API security (OAuth, API threat protection, etc.)

Key = Limited or no support = Partial support, may be adequate = Strong support

(for APIs consumed by mobile

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How Do the Integration Technologies Map Into the HIP?

Classic, On-Premises Integration Platforms iPaaS

Role-Based User Experience

Integration Specialist UX Ad Hoc Integrator UX Citizen Integrator UX HIP Administrator UX

Governance: Prepackaged Integration Content Operations:

 API Policy  Administration
Management Orchestration
 Monitoring
 APIs and Integration
Services Catalog Integration Scenarios Support  Management
 Life Cycle  Security
Management A2A B2B Cloud Service Mobile App IoT
 Metadata
Management Core Application and Data Integration Capabilities
 Tracking
 Operational Analytics Communication Styles and Protocols

Deployment Models

On-Premises Hybrid Cloud

API Management Platforms Mobile Back-End Services iSaaS

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Integration Technology: One Size Doesn't Fit All
On-premises-heavy
API Management On-Premises
Integration
Platforms
API
ESB, Data Integration, BGS, Integration Appliance, etc.
Business A
Mgmt./ P REST/
Rules JSON
Gateway I
Data

Mobile Apps

User-facing Enterprise-facing
Citizen Integrator Tools (iSaaS) iPaaS

iSaaS Mobile Back-End Services iPaaS

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Mobile Apps
Key Issues

1. Why is API mediation central to the hybrid integration platform (HIP)?

2. What solutions are available for API mediation in the HIP?
3. How can you balance short-term integration use cases with
long-term investment?

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Who Pays for Integration?

 Cost of deployment is just the start

 Projects may provide the initial funding, but
it's just the start of the total cost
of ownership:
– Customization, maintenance and upgrades are
where the money goes
 Consider instead a shared ownership model,
through an IT shared services organization

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Case Study — Government Agency

 Multiple user channels:

– Mobile and web.

 No direct engagement with IT:

– It required its lines of business, service providers and partners to consume and
manipulate information without direct engagement with its IT organization.
 Already had an ESB:
– But felt the ESB did not address demands of its partners and solution providers.

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Making the Decision

 Had to provide a short-term ROI, specifically in a $

chargeback model.
 It was found that most of the planned applications
focused on mobilizing existing systems.
 Planned mobile apps were intended to connect into
systems that commonly have APIs available.
APIs

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The Decision

 Mobile back-end services were chosen

 This provided a starting point to developing a HIP
– Integration vision includes the use of the existing ESB with a service registry
– Building block toward a full hybrid integration platform

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Action Plan

Monday Morning:
 Identity mediated API opportunities in your organization
 Investigate the current integration capabilities that exist
Next 90 Days:
 Build funding models for integration
 Assemble an integration strategy team to ensure holistic needs are identified
and represented
Next 12 Months:
 Formulate long-term infrastructure plans and strategy
 Incrementally build out the HIP based on ROI and business case

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Recommended Gartner Research

 API Management, iPaaS and Mobile Back-End Services — Choosing the

Right Tool(s) for the Job
Mark O'Neill, Jason Wong and Others (G00311336)
 Preparing for a World Beyond Apps
Marty Resnick, Nick Jones and Mark O'Neill (G00326070)
 Choose the Best iPaaS for Your Organization
Elizabeth Golluscio (G00326571)
 Innovation Insight for Hybrid Integration Platforms
Massimo Pezzini (G00324068)
 Design an API Mediation Layer to Underpin Your Digital Business
Technology Platform
Elizabeth Golluscio, Aashish Gupta and Mark O'Neill (G00323828)
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