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Integration is all about making different apps and systems work together, allowing them to share data, orchestrating business workflows, and by coordinating how employees work across a growing number of apps. Initially, that meant connecting one on-premise software to another. From 1999-2001, a number of integration companies like TIBCO, BEA Software, and WebMethods went public, validating the first integration market. This burst of integration tools was fueled by the growth of core enterprise software, like ERP, HR, and CRM that businesses were installing at their companies.

But the landscape has changed so much since then. SaaS has dramatically changed how we purchase, consume, and adopt software, making business apps easy to buy, use, and maintain. As a result, software has become a differentiating part of every business, not just a tool, and all enterprises and businesses are adopting SaaS/cloud and mobile applications at a much more rapid pace. Today, an average enterprise uses 1,427 cloud apps across its entire organization (source: Skyhigh Networks Cloud Adoption Report Q4, 2016). This is a stark contrast to 1999 and early 2000, where an average enterprise used 5-10 enterprise apps.

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