In this 4 part blog series, I describe in detail how one might go about modernizing a functional, but legacy Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) application without redeveloping (or even touching) it. Why? The release cycle for the legacy app is too long and it doesn’t scale in a way that will meet the needs of […]
In the previous post in the “APIfy your integrations” series, we went through an API design-first approach to building integrations to back-end systems. We defined the API specification using RAML, implemented the API by importing the RAML into Anypoint Studio and deployed the implementation to mule runtime in cloud or on-premise. We are now […]
This blog post is a continuation of our first How To series, “APIFy your integrations,” where we started off by creating a SOAP API around a database. Some organizations are entirely invested in either SOAP or RESTful web services. There is plenty of material already written on SOAP vs. REST, so there’s no need for us to take […]
Data transformation Data transformation is a core requirement for most integrations. Anypoint Platform provides multiple types of transformers, including XSLT, DataWeave and DataMapper. DataWeave, our new data query and transformation language, offers significant performance advantages over Anypoint DataMapper, our earlier data mapping and transformation solution. The below benchmark shows transformations performance using DataWeave and Anypoint […]
For a while now there have been maven archetypes for creating mule apps and domains. Such archetypes make getting started with development easier by automatically generating the basic core structure and files of mule projects (think configuration files, test classes, pom). This is especially interesting since the introduction in 3.5.0 of shared resources through mule […]
If you’re a Mule user, there’s a good chance that you’re using Maven to automate building and testing of your applications. We’re happy to announce Mule Maven Plugin 2.0, to help you automate your deployment and integration tests. This plugin will help you no matter where do you want it to run: CloudHub, a local Standalone […]
In the previous post, Getting Started with DataWeave: Part 2, in this four-part series: Getting started with DataWeave Part 1 Getting started with DataWeave Part 2 Getting started with DataWeave Part 4 and a webinar about our powerful yet simple new transformation engine, DataWeave, we introduced you to Selector expressions so that you can navigate to and […]
Salesforce unveiled Lightning Connect with the promise of allowing you to expose the data stored in your legacy data source into Salesforce in real time, without needing any migration. The only requirement is exposing such datasource through an OData endpoint.So you have your datasource on one end, and Salesforce supporting OData on the other. The […]
Who are your customers? How can your business develop rich and deep relationships with them? We talk about using customer data in order to establish a single view of the customer; is your infrastructure equipped to collect and orchestrate all the relevant data in order to become truly customer-centric? Customer data is complicated. It lives […]
At industry conferences, in boardrooms, blogs and PowerPoint decks, the new corporate obsession is rapid “digital transformation.” According to KPMG, 93 percent of multinational companies are overhauling their business models. They have to. They realize that customer demand is evolving faster than they can adapt. They see they need to accelerate product development, reach buyers […]