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Integrating with Cloud-Based Applications: Where should I host it?
December 11th, 2010 @ 08:45pm
One of the trends we’re seeing recently is a growing business need for integrating internal business applications and data with cloud-based applications. Our experience in this space is mostly with SFA & CRM applications and, of course, the ubiquitous Google applications and services. As these applications are often targeted at the sales force, there are moderate numbers of users (100s-10s of thousands) with high availability requirements.
SOA is the de facto standard for integration with most cloud-based applications, so there’s no real architectural barrier to integrating with them – no matter where you host.
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