When Remedi started as a business twenty years ago, our focus was solely on EDI - integrating data from/to a trading partner from/to a company's business software. EDI software basically did what data integration software does today, but on a limited basis and it was strictly business-to-business. As companies began choosing software packages instead of developing applications in-house, the need for internal data integration grew and software developers answered the need with, what was then called, middleware. These days integration software satisfies the needs of business-to-business and application-to-application data exchange.
While these software packages are traditionally associated with on-premise integration, the emergence of the hybrid cloud has demonstrated another use of this versatile tool.
There are many reasons why a company may choose a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Some business functions may be less costly to outsource due to their process-oriented nature and ever-changing regulations (payroll), while others are highly customized and critical to the success of your business (customer service) and should be kept in-house.
Whatever the reason for the hybrid cloud approach, the need to integrate the data remains.