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Challenges in Cloud Integration

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Cloud computing has gained immense popularity in recent years because of the number of benefits it provides to a subscriber. Moreover being an open system, it provides the advantage of continuous innovation and improvement through the collaborative efforts of developers all over the globe.

Despite of the number of advantages, organizations still face number of challenges in integrating cloud applications with their existing organizational architecture. The primary challenge of incompatibility between the applications is one of the crucial concerns of companies. The architecture of cloud applications and services is not unified among various service providers and proprietary systems making it difficult for in-premise applications and cloud services to communicate. The locked standards of application from each vendor hence, become a problem for businesses. This creates a need for customizing the code of in-premise applications to match the communication standards of cloud-based services. This problem of compatibility will continue to persist until a standardized approach of application development will not be included into the business practices of cloud service providers. According to one of the surveys of technology analyst Gartner, 56% respondents, out of the 270 executives surveyed, mentioned integration issues of in-premise applications with SaaS solutions as one of the hindrances in deploying a cloud strategy. These issues become the reason to choose in-premise applications over cloud services for business operations.

Another issue that usually arises with integration of cloud services in business’ architecture is the concern of flexibility and scalability. Most of the cloud solutions like SaaS, comes with point-to-point integration of services but in a very basic manner. As the number of endpoints rise and nature of operational scenario become more complex, services performance starts decaying and efficiency of the overall system decreases.

The protection of the service from each vendor also hampers the open-ended nature of cloud. Though a cloud service is supposed to be an open source technology which liberates a company to choose a solution which suits their requirement, this notion is limited only to the services of a particular vendor. This means that all the code-customization conducted with the intention of integrating cloud services is actually limited to the standards matching of a single vendor. Any other solution which a company might find more beneficial would have to be integrated right from the scratch.

Though a cloud computing integration is a beneficial step for companies, the standardization measures practiced by cloud vendors de-limits the scope of improvement in business practices. The code-customization practice for synchronizing with the standards of each vendor wipes out the convenience offered by the concept of cloud computing.


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