A new path to the cloud:

Modern integration options for

fluid cloud migration
Into
Into the
the cloud:
cloud:
IT
IT ops
Ops are
are heading
heading skyward
skyward

Whether it’s increased risk of cyber-vulnerabilities,
unavailability of replacement parts, or a greater chance of
operational failures, on-premise IT infrastructures are being
phased out—at an accelerating rate.
Couple that downside with recent innovations in cloud
capabilities, and the benefits of moving IT operations to
the cloud—for businesses of all sizes—are becoming too
impactful to ignore. Business leaders agree:
But in the rush to migrate their existing operations, cloud-
bound businesses must still be wary. Choosing the wrong
pathway from legacy to cloud-based operations can end up
costing you time, creating persistent application conflicts, and
opening up vulnerability to security breaches.
Not all migration solutions are the same, and it’s important to
find one that can provide a seamless transition as you migrate
your IT operations.

By 2021, an estimated 94% of all workloads and compute In order to make the right choice, know what to watch out for
instances will be processed in cloud datacenters.1 as you plan the transition so you can explore which providers
offer solutions that directly address your needs.
Businesses who continue to operate with the majority of their
infrastructure on-premise will be at a disadvantage as digital
transformation targets cloud-based platforms.

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White paper: Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2016–2021 2
The clouds are changing:
Operating on “Cloud 2.0” is the new benchmark
Although much of the mystery and confusion surrounding cloud services
has subsided, the cloud environment itself is still evolving.
We’re now seeing a significant shift in how the cloud can help businesses
thrive. Cloud operations and capabilities have changed so dramatically
since its inception that analysts are now heralding the emergence of
“Cloud 2.0.”
Back when Cloud 1.0 offered businesses the potential for reduced
equipment cost outlay, scalable usage and storage expenses, and
increased accessibility, it effectively created a new benchmark for modern
IT operations. The enhanced benefits of Cloud 2.0 are now resetting that
benchmark and creating a new normal for industry-leading businesses.
On top of the technological advances that continue to drive down
consumer costs and boost performance for cloud users, we’re also
exploring the benefits that AI and machine learning can bring to the table.
The possibilities of self-healing and offline bridging are exciting flashes
of things to come. Cloud 2.0 also provides a more seamless, stable, and
secure platform for businesses to perform their IT processes.
Perhaps the biggest game-changer for industry leaders has been the
unlocked potential of data transformation to help influence business
decisions and internal operational efficiencies. While Cloud 1.0 built the
systems through which data could be collected, Cloud 2.0 is dedicated to
creating value from this data. Cloud 1.0 gave us the infrastructure and a
stable foundation—now it’s time to move forward.
Cloud 2.0 focuses on providing organizations with the predictive and
behavioral analysis that will become vital for industry leaders to maintain
their positions. By embracing the opportunities of Cloud 2.0 now,
organizations can begin leveraging this new technology—before their
competition catches up.
Consider the tangible impact—in terms of cost, performance, and
security—that Cloud 2.0 holds for your business. What could your teams
stand to gain from the transformative power of the new cloud?
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Plan ahead before
making the leap
The benefits of cloud migration are lucrative, but businesses looking to
transition should still do so cautiously. There are potential issues to avoid,
both during and after cloud deployment, including:
Security breaches
Be wary of carrying flawed data-security practices forward into an
environment that may be less forgiving than your current on-prem system.
Vendor unreliability
Choose a cloud service provider (CSP) with market-proven reliability and
sizable infrastructure to avoid outages and business interruptions.
Vendor lock-in
What happens if your CSP makes a drastic change to the product they’ve
supplied to you? Or even worse—goes out of business? Look for a CSP that
is established and reputable.
Lack of compliance
Compliance concerns continue to inhibit cloud adoption. Yet major
CSPs have established protocols and regular audits to ensure that the
information they handle has full data lineage traceability.
In-house staff inexperience
The migration process can seem overwhelming, but there are integration
tools available that enable individuals from all departments—not only IT—
to deploy and monitor cloud migrations.
When a company is deciding whether to make their cloud transition, they
need to be aware that chasing more agility can actually produce more
complexity, if handled incorrectly.
The best way to avoid these potential complications from the outset is to
simplify the migration process by using an integration platform as a service
(iPaaS) that enables a fluid transition to an enterprise-level CSP.
Seamlessly migrating a varied set of business applications is a complicated
process, but coupling the right iPaaS and CSP will intuitively help you
bypass any potential setbacks—whether it’s security, reliability, lock-in or
compliance—and provide a simple user interface that can easily monitor all
your business tools during and after migration.
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Integrate. Migrate.
Don’t complicate.
Even with the majority of businesses now operating on the cloud at
some level, there are still many common misconceptions surrounding cloud
migration. The most persistent complaints from would-be cloud users are
that migration is:
•  T
 oo complicated to be undertaken by personnel outside
of the central IT sector
•  Overly time-intensive
•  Only suited to enterprise-level businesses
•  Prohibitively expensive
In reality, iPaaS’s have evolved their capabilities to counter all of these
issues. The new generation of iPaaS features intuitive, uniform graphical
interfaces—simple visual tools that enable in-house personnel to easily
accelerate a company’s ascension to the cloud, regardless of whether
they are IT specialists.
It is true that manually moving data to the cloud is tedious work for a
developer. Work that requires custom code for every connection made
across the applications, systems, and devices within an IT infrastructure. But
combining your iPaaS with a world-class CSP will unlock low-code/no-code
plug-and-play options, drastically reducing time and expense for business
owners and managers.
Merging your integration tools with a compatible CSP also ensures
enhanced security for data storage and processing, as your data passes
seamlessly from your on-prem system, through the integration process,
and into a secure cloud environment.
And integration providers are increasingly offering their enterprise-level
services to smaller- and medium-sized businesses through simplified, SMB-
friendly pricing models.
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 A new life in the cloud

After you’ve integrated your business tools and paired your iPaaS with a  ontinuous support: From project initiation to deployment and long after,
C
reliable, secure CSP, your business will be primed to take advantage of your integration supplier can be there to assist with any difficulties that
many new opportunities, including: might arise along the way.

Reduced IT costs: Eliminate the purchase, management, and maintenance
expenses of your on-prem IT systems, and channel those costs into the
areas of your business that will fuel growth.
Scalability: Scale your operational and storage needs, saving costs in
downtime while staying confident that your systems will handle any spikes
in workload.
Business continuity: Minimize downtime and loss of productivity (or
information) with secure data backup.
If your business is ready to integrate its tools and applications and
accelerate its digital transformation into the cloud environment, it’s time to
find an industry-leading iPaaS—one that boasts full compatibility with an
enterprise-grade CSP.
To find which platform is leading the field in integration services, consider
this report from global research firm Forrester, who recently compared the
top players in strategic iPaaS and hybrid integration platforms for 2019.2
The report identified TIBCO Cloud Integration as a leader in the evaluation,
giving it the highest possible score in the following categories:

Collaboration efficiency: Communicate and share information easily, from •  API creation and management •  Number of customers
global access points, using a single source of truth. •  B2B integration •  Revenue
•  Data integration •  Support of modern dev-ops
Enhanced security: Find a trusted CSP that has been designed on industry methods
•  Deployment models
leading security processes, to ensure that private data and services stay
•  IoT integration •  Time to value
safe and secure.
•  Market approach •  User experience
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Peyret, Henry, et al: The Forrester Wave: Strategic iPaaS and Hybrid Integration Platforms, Q1 2019 (Jan. 3, 2019) 6
By pairing TIBCO’s integration platform with an industry-leading CSP like Microsoft Azure, you’ll have every aspect of your integration
and migration covered. Azure is at the forefront of cloud service innovation, with world-renowned service at the highest level.

Implementing the one-two punch of TIBCO with Azure when migrating your operations to the cloud won’t just save you headaches.
The combination will yield major operational benefits for your business:

Accelerated integration. Intelligent apps. API management.

Quickly connect more than 200 applications,
databases, and protocols, including Microsoft
Dynamics 365 and Microsoft SQL Server, with
TIBCO’s API-led integration.
Integrate intelligence into your apps with
Azure’s built-in intelligence and TIBCO’s
machine learning capabilities. Get more relevant
insights from your data for better business
decisions and faster growth.
Use a full life cycle API platform for cloud-
native API creation, management, security,
and analytics—or deploy, manage, and scale
containerized deployments using Azure.

Data amalgamation. Data visualization. Serverless ops.

Bring all of your data together, whether it’s big
data, cloud, or IoT data sources, making it easier
to access and use. Centralize data from sources
including ERP systems and Microsoft 365, SQL
Server, and Dynamics CRM into a single, logical,
virtual view.
Gain insight from all your Microsoft data sources,
and many others, with real-time interactive
visual analytics and embedded dashboards. You
can immediately share dashboards and reports
on virtually all devices, even when your team is
scattered around the globe.
It’s no longer necessary to worry about capacity
planning and provisioning, maintaining, and
updating your systems. Simply upload your
apps to Azure Functions and use the lightweight,
serverless Project Flogo integration engine to
build microservices for edge computing.

Let’s take a look at how TIBCO + Azure helped enterprise airline JetBlue realize their goal of integrating IT
to streamline their internal workflows and enhance their customer experience.

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Case study:
JetBlue
JetBlue is a low-cost American airline with the mission
to “inspire humanity.” In 2016, J.D. Power ranked it
first in customer satisfaction among low-cost carriers
for the twelfth consecutive year — and Forbes named
it one of the “Top 10 Best Places to Work” in the
United States and the number one company in the
transportation and logistics category.
Situation
In 2014, JetBlue’s legacy IT system included isolated silos of data throughout the
organization, including many point-to-point integrations. This provided no single
source of truth for their data, preventing analysts and other personnel from
gathering the data they needed to complete tasks effectively.
Solution
Part of JetBlue’s strategy and partnership with TIBCO was to create a platform and
a place where analysts could easily access usable data to derive intelligence and
provide consistent information across all their channels.
Results
With TIBCO, JetBlue was able to identify key operational areas that could leverage
integrators to solve real-world problems and support customer engagement.
Within many parts of the organization, point-to-point integrators gathered data
manually—a tedious and time-consuming task. TIBCO, however, enabled them
to access the information they needed in just a few clicks. While other competing
business partners didn’t offer the integrated solutions that JetBlue was looking for,
TIBCO consisted of a whole host of products such as Business Events, Business Works,
EMS, Active Spaces, and Spotfire—ultimately enabling increased process efficiency.
Additionally, JetBlue’s customer experience has improved. Their NET Promoter
Score has increased as crew now have the necessary information to better support
customers and operations.
We knew [TIBCO’s] software would be easy to set up,
support, maintain, and be very accessible for end users.”
—Andi Azzolina, Director of Shared Development Services
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Mobilize your business growth
As cloud capabilities accelerate, so does the divide in performance between businesses who
continue to operate on-premise and those who are taking advantage of the cloud’s expanding toolset.
It’s an exciting time for businesses, as they begin to harness the growth potential of Cloud 2.0.

TIBCO’s enterprise-grade integration solutions can help navigate the process of cloud migration quickly
and easily, while avoiding any potential setbacks. Learn more about how TIBCO Cloud Integration can
fluidly migrate your IT operations to Azure’s secure, connected ecosystem, and seamlessly accelerate
your digital transformation.

Ready to elevate your business? Look to the cloud.

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