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The cloud is one of the disruptive technologies and affordable solutions for your enterprise.  It offers infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as service (SaaS).  IaaS, the most basic cloud service, caters IT infrastructure, servers, virtual machines, storage, networks and operating systems.

There are multiple methods to integrate application architecture. The first method is creating a centralized application architecture as a top-down approach, but you may not know all the requirements for your applications beforehand. Generally implemented in a waterfall model, data is prepared based on requirements. While it works, making changes with this design can get expensive.

What is Enterprise Service Bus?

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a middle layer communication tool that combines the best features of service-oriented architecture with the best features of the message-based architecture. While you must configure it before you can use it within your organization, there are about 65 pre-written integration patterns already on the market you can use to quickly get set up and running without having to create new code.

SAP SuccessFactors was founded in 2001 and acquired by SAG AG’s US subsidiary, SAG America, in 2011. It provides Human Capital Management (HCM) cloud solutions, covering the needs of 45 million people/employees in more of 6,000 organizations worldwide, according to Gartner, Forester and IDC.

What is Enterprise Service Bus?

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a feature-rich, drag-and-drop message-oriented middle tier network layer that combines Service oriented architecture (SOA) with the message-oriented layer to address the limitations of SOA. ESB also lets you change your infrastructure by configuring and reusing ESB parameters instead of writing new code. Offered by several vendors such as the IBM WebSphere, Dell Boomi, Oracle, Mulesoft, WSO2, TALEND, Microsoft Biztalk server and Redhat JBOSS, ESB is the primary tool for enterprise integration platform.