Application Integration for Business Process Modernization

[asmeyatsky1]

Our business transformation business unit has some complex integration requirements that I believe can be met by Application Integration. Whilst I appreciate how we can use this for solutions that are on Google Cloud, what is Google POV for clients on other public clouds, on premises and wanting to integrate and automate. Is there some framework that we can refer to satisfy these uses cases and has there been any progress on application integration centre of excellence?

[shaaland · Accepted solution]

Hi @asmeyatsky1 ,

Most customers are now multi-cloud.  Our runtime offers customers a SaaS like experience to iPaaS, and it happens to run on GCP.  This capability of using an iPaaS and not having to concern yourself with Infrastructure, Scaling, uptime monitoring, and all the other responsibilities of running your own stack is highly valuable to customers.  Other iPaaS products out there may run on other clouds.  Some may be SaaS like, and others may be more like a PaaS requiring additional infra skills and people time. Customers choose the platform that fits their needs primarily because of the product's ability to meet the functional requirements, coupled with performance and other non-functional requirements. 

We can connect to other clouds and to on-premises via Private Service Connect in GCP, and then through other GCP Network connectivity constructs (VPNs or Interconnects) to ultimately achieve private (and secure) network connectivity to these destinations, just as any other GCP Solution would use to connect to private networks.  We can also connect to Vertex AI with our Vertex AI Connector, which enables a whole new capability of added intelligence into your business processes.  We can easily create composable integrations to applications, which can then quickly be turned into Vertex Agents, enabling your business users to get access to Data from core applications via a chat interface.  These are some advantages of partnering will GCP that go way beyond core Integration requirements on an RFP checklist.  These Vertex Agents are able to intelligently sequence a series of calls to integrations and dynamically do tasks like data mapping to accomplish everyday tasks, all from a natural language interface via Google Chat, Slack or many other chat interfaces supported by Vertex Agents.  This means your integration development team doesn't have to create the infinite number of combinations of interfaces...they just create the composable building blocks, and Vertex Agents figure out how to call them in the right order.  This is amazing new technology available on GCP. 

So the decision for the customer to choose their iPaaS is always multi-faceted and comes with a lot of different priorities and requirements. We always try to help customers to choose what is best for them, which may be our platform, or could be a different solution.  At the end of the day, our most important metric of success is our customer's success, and we have a strong history on our GCP team and specifically our Application Integration team of partnering with customers to help them achieve that success.  So, one big question to ask yourself: Are you looking for just software you want to run and manage, or are you looking for software that runs itself and comes with a partnership to success?   And, where are you investing in AI for your future?  If that answer is GCP,  then why wouldn't you also partner with us for Application Integration so that you can enable AI more quickly into your business processes with Vertex AI? 

Thanks for your question,

- Scott Haaland
Application Integration Product

[asmeyatsky1]

Scott, thank you for your response. I will look into this further