As organizations continue to embrace cloud computing as the means to realize business benefits, for example, TCO reduction, business agility, and digital transformation, an inevitable side effect also takes place: information becomes more and more federated.
The rationale is simple and we will take a look at a typical on-premise system: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). A typical ERP system encompasses not one, but several business capabilities (often referred to as modules, for example, finance, HR, SCM, and so on.) all supported by a single infrastructure (a monolith).
Now, because of this, all modules within the same monolith are integrated out of the box, mainly because they all share a single database. Therefore, this simplifies (at least a bit) the integration landscape. This...
