Back to office again. However, I’m in the spirited mood. The training last week was pretty fruitful. First, my impression on middleware significance has truly transformed. Now I can see why it is the integral part of IT future. As you see, over the years, companies have invested lots of dollars to improve their IT systems. But IT is changing rapidly. From on-premise concept, now there is on-demand concept whereby rather than purchasing the infrastructure and applications, one can now subscribe this from third party vendors. All they need is just paying a monthly subscription fees. After investing lots of dollars, do you think it’s wise to throw the previous investment and invest on the new technology? When you have many different on-premise or on-demand applications, do you want to opt on integrated application by throwing away all previous applications? This is not a wise move of course. You can still opt to integrated application or even on-demand application by using a middleware application. This is the beauty of middleware application. In the complex IT landscape today, there is a need to integrate all different applications so that they can interact with each other. SAP interacts to Oracle, Oracle to SalesForce, SAP to NetSuite and many others. You see, any type of applications can interact with each other. Then, we will have the power of leverage. On-premise ERP such as SAP can leverage on on-demand CRM such as SalesForce with the power of middleware application. I see this as a future of IT landscape. Thus, I truly appreciate my knowledge on SAP XI/PI. Now it’s time to walk the talk, integrating SAP and Scorpio!
