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.