Take the API approach to microservices and lessons learned from SOA

Download our Best Practices for Microservices whitepaper to gain a deeper perspective about our approach to microservices written in this post. If IT today has a watchword, that word is “speed.” At the same time, IT is expected to protect the organization’s crown jewels (company finances and private customer records) and to keep services available and responsive. […]

Integration design challenges: Top 3 best practices exposed like microservices

Featured guest post on MuleSoft Blogs from Abraham Santiago, Principal Integration Consultant of WhiteSky Labs. API middleware integration industry is definitely not short of Architectural principles, from top-down strategic initiatives like digital transformation and legacy modernization to developer-centric ones like event-driven architecture, microservices, and DevOps. But beyond that and onto the fun and games of actual delivery […]

APIs and the explosion of marketing technology for marketers

Traditionally, “Application Program Interface (API)” was a term known mostly within the developer community. Also, it would be rare to hear about a marketer or a financial analyst “working with APIs.” However, as technology continues to evolve, there are more data and ways to measure data. A particularly interesting topic – marketing technology – came […]

How to solve the top 4 retail B2B challenges

You don’t need us to tell you how drastically the retail industry is changing. The convergence of channels driven by always-connected consumers and emerging technology is completely altering the way we shop for everything. To keep up with the pace of change, retailers need to be agile, flexible, and adaptable, which isn’t always easy with […]

Webinar: Accelerating Innovation with MuleSoft Catalyst for Healthcare

Catalyst Accelerate for Healthcare webinar is now available to watch on demand. Slides are also available now, click here to view them. The combination of legislative, technological, and market pressures has created a digital transformation imperative in healthcare. For healthcare IT teams, addressing this imperative requires the the ability to expose and orchestrate data between clinical […]

The 5 most important Salesforce integration patterns

Modern businesses require modern customer relationship management. For many organizations, Salesforce fulfills that need. Salesforce can increase and accelerate sales, grow customer loyalty, and enhance marketing capabilities. It gives teams across an organization the ability to access and leverage the most up-to-date customer information in order to streamline business processes and create the most effective […]

Virtual reality in the enterprise – is it right for your organization?

The world has worked itself into a frenzy over Pokemon Go, the augmented reality game where Pikachu and his associates appear in local shops and restaurants. Many observers may have looked at this and thought that virtual reality will never have any impact on the enterprise. Not so. In fact, there are numerous digital transformation […]

Introducing Catalyst Accelerate for Healthcare

Let’s face it – integration isn’t easy in healthcare. EHRs are notoriously thorny to work with. HIPAA regulations require security and governance controls to be put in place when data moves between systems. And while many technologies underlying digital transformation have enabled hospitals to engage with their patients in innovative ways, these technologies have dramatically […]

Introducing API templates with reusable System and Process APIs

In today’s world, APIs are used to abstract the complexity of systems of records, to provide secure connectivity to the end systems, and to accomplish business goals such as creating a unified view of a customer. But APIs alone cannot accomplish all integration use cases. For example, when you want to send data from won […]

Microservices with Mule

Govind Mulinti, a senior architect at Whishworks, is the guest author of this blog post.  Microservices has been a buzz word for past few years. It talks about a technique of designing integrations and APIs as independently deployable services. There are certain characteristics around organizations around business capabilities, automated deployments, intelligent endpoints and distributed control of […]