As businesses continue to adopt cloud and online business applications, it seems like déjà vu all over again for integration. How do I access and share online data with the rest of my business? How do I avoid going back to manual processes because I can't get my cloud applications to talk to my other business applications easily?
Most cloud vendors claim that their offerings integrate with this, that, or the other. That definition of "integrate" varies from vendor to vendor. Typically when you dig beneath marketing content, it usually means the cloud vendor offers an API and it's up to you to integrate from there. Better cloud vendors will have some level of pre-built integration with one or two popular business applications, a marketplace where thi...