MetraTech, the leading provider of agreements-based billing and compensation solutions, and Scribe, a global data integration provider, has announced that the two companies are collaborating to connect the Metanga cloud billing application to Microsoft Dynamics CRM and other business applications. This technology partnership delivers faster time to revenue at a fraction of the cost of traditional integration solutions for independent software vendors (ISVs) that create and support cloud-based services.

Using Scribe Online, customers can integrate customer and transactional data between Metanga, MetraTech's multi-tenant, cloud-based billing application, and other online and on-premise business applications. The Scribe Online platform simplifies the implementation and maintenance of integration solutions, and like Metanga, it is built on the Windows Azure platform. Its unique collaborative user experience and ability to support global integrations make it an ideal solution for integrating a broad range of applications quickly and easily.

Since Boomi was acquired and abducted by Dell last year, the integration marketplace has started to heat back up. A year ago it seemed that with Cast Iron Systems (acquired by IBM) and Boomi dominating, there was hardly any room for other players.

This year's theme of social media and cloud company acquisition extravaganza leaves me wondering who will likely be the next player to be acquired. 

Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to catch up with the SnapLogic team at SIIA/OpSource's All About The Cloud event in San Francisco. What I really like about SnapLogic is their visual connection platform, which allows you to use what they term "Snaps" to visually connect applications together. Snaps are pre-fabricated connections leveraging app APIs, so no deep technical knowledge is needed to make two apps talk, making it really easy to keep the business pathways flowing.

Hubspan, the leading provider of cloud-scale B2B integration solutions, today launched WebSpan Manager, a new Web-based community portal that provides customers and their integration communities with critical visibility and administrative control of their interactions on the WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform. WebSpan Manager is a flexible, on-demand community portal that provides self-service administration, including secure role-based access, process visibility and intelligence, and activity monitoring.

The release of WebSpan Manager is part of Hubspan's overall strategy to provide customers with the option to independently manage their B2B integration by exposing the rich functionality of Hubspan's cloud integration platform in a self-service environment.

WebSpan Manager combines Hubspan's industry-leading cloud integration platform and solutions with a robust community portal to provide customers and their partners with self-service management and visibility into B2B integration processes. The portal provides customers a single Web destination to manage their company and user profiles, user access, on-demand reporting, transaction dashboards and trend analysis. With WebSpan Manager, customers save time by accessing a single destination for all management aspects of their integration process activity, including a quick, real-time view into the status of individual transactions.

• New Features Enhance Productivity and Collaboration Between Business and IT
• Accommodates Big Data Growth, Globalization and Business Analytics
• Wizards Simplify Integrations for Web Services, XML, Databases and Flat Files

Jitterbit, a leading provider of powerful, flexible and easy-to-use application and data integration solutions, today announced the availability of Jitterbit 4.0, the company's award-winning software for on-premise and cloud integration. Jitterbit 4.0 was designed to facilitate IT and Business collaboration, simplify cloud integration and accommodate big data requirements.

Connecting cloud, SaaS and other internal applications is a business and IT priority. Jitterbit offers a simplified approach to integration for IT and business analysts, offering easy, out-of-the-box integration to hundreds of enterprise applications and an intuitive drag-and-drop design. Its unique "no-coding" approach allows users to graphically configure and manage their cloud integration and on-premise application and data integration projects.

Integration Service Provides Orchestration Across Enterprise and Cloud, Solves Emerging "Cloud Silo" Problem

MuleSoft, the provider of web middleware built on leading open source projects Mule ESB and Apache Tomcat, has announced a private beta program for a new integration platform as a service (iPaaS) called Mule iON. Mule iON enables developers and application teams to integrate and orchestrate applications and services seamlessly across the enterprise and cloud. It also provides IT operations with the same runtime visibility and control they would expect from an on-premise integration platform, all without the need to install or manage middleware or hardware infrastructure.

Jitterbit, a leading provider of simplified, powerful, and flexible application and data integration solutions, today announced that Petzl, a manufacturer of climbing and outdoor sporting equipment, depends on Jitterbit for seamless integration between its on-premise and cloud business systems. The integration platform allows Petzl to be more efficient and effective across the board from the sales team to the IT department.

For more than 40 years, Petzl has developed innovative tools and techniques used by mountain climbers and cave explorers around the globe. Recently, Petzl implemented a number of new technologies to help streamline its processes and to help it keep up with increased customer demand. First, Petzl launched its innovative B2B customer facing Web portal, using Jitterbit to seamlessly integrate with its backend IBM ERP system. Jitterbit proved so powerful and easy to use that Petzl turned to the software again when they adopted Salesforce to optimize its sales processes. Using Jitterbit for its Salesforce integration, Petzl was able to provide its sales team a "one stop" view of all information related to a customer account including orders, inventory and payment status.

Eloqua, the leader in marketing automation solutions that dramatically accelerate revenue growth, has announced it has formed "Eloqua Cloud Connectors," an initiative designed to work with independent software vendors (ISVs), achieving the interoperability marketers need to attain Revenue Performance Management (RPM). For the first time, marketers can get an encompassing view of the entire sales funnel -- from unknown "suspects" on the social Web, to prospects in the Eloqua database, to opportunities and closed business in the CRM system. 

With the Eloqua Cloud Connectors initiative, Eloqua is working with ISVs to bring together the dozens of point solutions and applications sales and marketing teams currently use into one intuitive, actionable platform in order to provide users with the ability to understand buyers based on their online activity. Today, Eloqua welcomes the first two ISVs to participate in the Cloud Connector initiative -- ON24, the global leader in webcasting and virtual events, and Jigsaw, the leader in crowd-sourced business information and data services.

Informatica Corporation, the world's number one independent leader in data integration software, today launched Informatica Cloud Express, the first cloud data integration service with usage-based pricing.

Informatica Cloud Express pricing will start at only $99 US per month, opening the door for organizations of all sizes to leverage the industry-leading data integration capabilities of Informatica Cloud – voted the Best Integration Application of 2009 and 2008 by salesforce.com customers on AppExchange. Delivered as a true multi-tenant cloud service, Informatica Cloud Express will empower Salesforce administrators and operations staff to create, schedule and automate bi-directional cloud-to-on premise integration tasks without coding and without requiring a hardware appliance.

Dell today announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration leader Boomi to help businesses reap the full value of cloud computing. Powered by its revolutionary AtomSphere technology, Boomi offers the industry’s only pure SaaS application integration platform that takes the cost and complexity out of integrating applications by allowing easy transfer of data between cloud-based and on-premise applications with no appliances, no software and no coding required.

Boomi Industry Leadership

Headquartered in Berwyn, Pa., Boomi’s technology solutions are widely used with the world’s leading cloud-based applications, including Salesforce CRM, as well as marketing, financial, human resources, content management and service-desk management.