Chapter 13. Where Can I Go from Here?

In the previous chapter, we looked at monitoring and some elements of administration. In this final chapter, we are going to look at core administration capabilities, particularly the use of the importing and exporting of integrations and what this enables you to achieve, including the availability of a marketplace of extensions. We shall discuss the ICS API and the Cloud Adapter Software Development Kit as the foundations to extend the management of ICS, as well as how to build your own adapters.

Finally, the integration space is an ever-evolving part of IT and is becoming the core foundation of nearly all software solutions. Within this, the rapid growth of cloud technology has meant this is perhaps one of the quickest evolving areas of software technology. So, we shall take a look at how we can keep abreast of developments, particularly for ICS, as well as where to get more information that will help with using ICS and understanding the...