Upcoming webinar: What going digital really means for IT

Everybody wants to transform digitally. Our recent survey showed that 96% of businesses are either executing digital transformation initiatives or are planning to start them soon. This is ideal for companies that are looking to improve their processes, delight their customers and stakeholders, and bring new products and services to market to keep ahead of […]

4 key guiding principles to building your application network

In a previous post, I explained the reasons why pure SOA, despite being a powerful architectural paradigm with many benefits, could fall short.  Building on that narrative, I will provide in this post guiding principles to help you create a modern integration strategy – one that enables digital transformation, supports the API economy and is suitable […]

Upcoming webinar: Driving Digital Transformation in Federal Government

Organizations today face an increasing amount of roadblocks from legacy systems. From system outages to high support and maintenance costs, legacy systems prevent businesses from innovating at the necessary pace to keep up with competition, customer demands, and the desires of stakeholders like employees and partners. Institutions in the federal government face these pressures as […]

Connecting anything to anything: How the MuleSoft team got a Commodore 64 to tweet

When MuleSoft engineering recently organized a two-day internal hackathon, our team of four: immediately got to work brainstorming what to build.  Very quickly we gravitated towards creating an interactive IoT installation that would illustrate how MuleSoft’s technology makes it easy to connect the world’s data and devices together in interesting and useful ways.  Moreover, we […]

Upcoming webinar: The value of integration and what we learned from our customers

“Every company must become a technology company.” How many times have we heard this? It might be a truism, but it’s one that’s actually true – digital transformation strategies need to be woven into every activity an enterprise undertakes, not shunted off into IT or the digital department. The biggest challenge in IT right now is that […]

Proxying with API Manager

We often expose the proxy APIs that connect applications to their backend APIs. With a proxy API, the application continues to run without issue and continue to call and connect to the backend API while a developer is editing it. Exposing a proxy API also protects the backend API from the world, shielding the real […]

Acquiring a big company? Here’s what you need to know to make M&A integration work.

Microsoft announced on June 13, 2016 that it had agreed to acquire LinkedIn for $26 billion. But after the press releases go flying and the champagne is popped, the real challenges begin. If Microsoft’s experience is anything like what our customers tell us, integrating IT systems in a M&A situation is as important – and often […]

Failed digital transformation could have a negative impact on revenue

96 percent of businesses are either undergoing some kind of digital transformation strategy or plan to in the near future. Those are the results of a recent survey we conducted; just about every business is trying to get a handle on how to cope with new channels, new methods of engagement, and ubiquitous connectivity. The […]

The top 3 obstacles to digital transformation

There are very few businesses that aren’t undergoing some form of digital transformation. As our founder, Ross Mason, points out, “Business as we know it is under enormous pressure…No company is too big to have the rug pulled from under it. It is no longer about the big eating the small; it is now about […]

Using APIs to build a great architecture

As we often say, APIs are the way to connect applications, data, and devices that will give your organization greater agility and flexibility. We recommend an API-led approach to connectivity that will enable your business to take advantage of digital transformation. But how does API-led connectivity work from an architecture perspective? Software company Perficient has […]