I found this interesting from a recent Gartner whitepaper written for CIOs and IT leaders investigating the strategic selection of composable SaaS+PaaS platforms:
"Beware of legacy vendors supporting a wide and disparate selection of underlying platforms and architectures underpinning their SaaS offerings. These are less likely to provide a unified API style or data schema that in turn will increase operational management costs and reduce interoperability and the ability to create new services, together with fragmented ecosystems."
In other words, if the platforms didn't integrate well before the cloud, they certainly aren't going to magically integrate when they're stuffed into a cloud.
The insight is offered as part of an analysis by Gartner analysts Paul Vincent; Yefim Natis; Fabrizio Biscotti in Hype Cycle for Platform as a Service, 2020, published August 12, 2020, available to Gartner subscribers.
I hope what the authors point out under their heading of ‘user advice’ is well-taken, because this is, regrettably, a common problem among those eager to pursue solutions but mistakenly thinking that any cloud option will achieve their goals. Many invest time and money in less than full integration only to realize later the value of selecting the right cloud with the right solutions.
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