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Business integration has never been particularly glamorous. It is the plumbing underneath ERP systems, supply chains, APIs, partner networks, data platforms, and increasingly AI applications. When integration works, nobody talks about it, but when it fails, suddenly everyone cares, especially in this era of artificial intelligence (AI). This is making that companies in this segment of the software industry scale positions on every priority list of every tech decision maker. Just a few days ago I had the opportunity to meet with Ulf Persson, Sr. Vice President, Strategic Product Management at SEEBURGER . The German integration vendor has spent roughly four decades in a market built around deterministic problems: move this file, transform that message, connect this trading partner, and expose that application through an API. Its Business Integration Suite (BIS) reflects those roots, covering B2B/EDI, managed file transfer, application integration, APIs, and related integration ...

As cloud computing adoption continues to grow, so  the need for modern and more efficient business and data integration capabilities. And while many aspects of business and data integration are being simplified and automated, the increasing sophistication of business needs and the requirement of capabilities for performing highly efficient integration continuously are forcing organizations to make continuous calls for new and ongoing digital transformation efforts. In this vein, an interesting news came in just a couple of weeks ago when a partnership between Informatica , a big player in the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and tech giant Google was announced . Of course, the mere fact that two major players in the software industry decide to partner is already something worth to listen to, but the partnership is also particularly interesting because it involves the provision of artificial intelligence(AI)-driven integration services, in an enormous effort from b...