Who this book is for
This book seeks to support a broad range of readers ranging from Citizen Integrators to software architects and developers. This brings in the question – what is a Citizen Integrator? The term Citizen Integrator can be traced back to at least 2009 with Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/1212813) as a variation on the idea of Citizen Developer. Gartner proposes and we are now seeing the idea that you no longer need to be a technologist to be able to integrate solutions. A Citizen Integrator can be characterized as anyone who can as easily be part of an organizations, business community as much as the IT part of a business. These individuals will have a level of technical appreciation, and will certainly understand the semantics of the data being exposed. For example, a business analyst is as likely to use ICS to build integrations as an IT specialist.