Benoit J. LheureuxA few months back in my post Cloud Services Brokerage: Its Time to Move Beyond Integration as a Service I introduced the notion that Integration as a Service — despite its broad adoption and enduring usefulness — was simply not, by itself, a sufficient metaphor to describe what is really needed to facilitate the consumption of Cloud services.
At the time I alluded to forthcoming research that would formally define something new, Cloud services brokerage (CSB), and explore this new IT phenomenon from various points of view. I’m happy to announce the availability of our formal definition of CSB:
Defining Cloud Services Brokerage: Taking Intermediation to the Next Level (subscription required)
Daryl Plummer and I, and a bunch of our colleagues here at Gartner are also furiously working on nearly a dozen additional pieces of CSB-related research which will be published throughout the next few weeks including a CSB reference model, research that links CSB to governance, context aware computing, and business process outsourcing, that defines the role (and evolution) of integration as a service into CSB, and that assesses the emerging CSB provider landscape.
This set of research is just an initial installment on a substantial new line of research that will addresses this new and exciting Cloud phenomenon. While I will continue to publish on integration as a service I will concurrently be working with my colleagues to cover CSB as it continues to emerge and evolve. I’ll post again soon as more of our CSB-related research becomes available.
Cheers,
- bjl
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1 Margaret Dawson October 11, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I think Gartner is ahead of the curve here in identifying this direction for integration and cloud services. Agree this is an exciting evolution in Integration as a Service. What I’m finding though is many enterprises are still trying to understand cloud in general, so I can see it being a couple of years before companies start asking for cloud brokerage. But it’s the right thing for you to be making sure vendors and enterprise IT are thinking about this now.
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3 Vikas Deolaliker October 11, 2010 at 4:12 pm
We have been through this before right? WS intermediation circa 2003. Aren’t cloud services at the end of the day web services? Then why invent a new concept and not simply use what we already have?
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[...] I recently wrote a prediction stating that “Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) is the single largest revenue growth opportunity in Cloud Computing”. Of course, not everyone agrees with that. So, I had to go out an try to provide more evidence. And to do that, I finished rewriting the definition of cloud services brokerage. Benoit Lheruex and I have been working steadily on this and are seeing notables such as Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM all begin to plan for a significant brokerage future alonside upstarts like Appirio, Boomi, and even stalwarts like GXS. See Ben’s blog post on CSB here. [...]
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