Cloud Integration at iRobot: Powering the Elastic Enterprise

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Cloud Integration at iRobot: Powering the Elastic Enterprise

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In this webinar, we discuss powering the elastic enterprise with SnapLogic customer Jim Teal of iRobot, using cloud integration and the SnapLogic integration platform as a service (iPaaS). We also review the business drivers that led iRobot to invest in a modern, cloud-based integration solution to drive operational efficiency and improved quality in the data collection process. To learn more, visit: http://www.snaplogic.com/customers

Transcript of Cloud Integration at iRobot: Powering the Elastic Enterprise

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Cloud Integration at iRobot: Powering the Elastic

Enterprise

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Today’s Presenters

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Today’s Agenda

The Elastic Enterprise and the Integration Imperative

iRobot and iPaaS

SnapLogic Integration Platform Introduction

Demonstration

Discussion and Next Steps

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Elasticity Defined

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What Makes an Enterprise Elastic?

“Agile”

“Innovative”

“Adaptive”

“Flexible”

“Modern Infrastructure”

“Dynamic”

“Responsive”

“Distributed”

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The Elastic Enterprise

“The Fluid Core”

“Radical Adjacency”

“Externalization”

“Digital Competency”

“Operate at Scale”

“Universal Connectors”

“Business Ecosystems”

“Cloud Computing”

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Dealing with the New Integration Challenges

Big Data Access and Analytics

API ProliferationDisconnected SaaS Silos

The Internet of Things…

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Two Critical Questions for Enterprise IT

CRM

HRMS ITSM

ERP

SCM

Analytics

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“Cloudification” Which Apps to Move to the

Cloud and When?

“Data Gravity” Will Data Reside Behind

the Firewall or in the Cloud?

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Traditional Integration Approaches Can’t Keep Up

Legacy EAI– Not built for the web

– On-prem ESB

– Code-intensive

Legacy ETL– Built for rows and columns

– Batch-oriented

– Struggles with real-time

Organizations are increasingly turning to iPaaS offerings because of their close affinity with SaaS and the anticipated greater ease of use, lower

costs and faster time-to-integration than traditional integration platforms. . 

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Known as “The Integrator’s Dilemma”

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About SnapLogic

Experienced Team: Leadership from INFA, Salesforce, MSFT

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz & Ignition

Customers: Acxiom, BlackBerry, Bloomin’ Brands, GE, Dannon, Netflix

CIO Advisory Board: AstraZeneca, Cisco, Clorox, EA

Headquarters: San Mateo, CA

We’re 100% focused on delivering faster application, process and data integration in a single cloud platform.

- Gaurav Dhillon, SnapLogic Founder and CEO

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Today’s Agenda

The Elastic Enterprise and the Integration Imperative

iRobot and iPaaS

SnapLogic Integration Platform Introduction

Demonstration

Discussion and Next Steps

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About iRobot

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Needed to increase cadence and veracity of distributed manufacturing data collection processes with a focus on operational intelligence.• Synchronize data

across multiple geos, vendors, and firewalls

“With SnapLogic we’ve been able to eliminate some of the rigidity and time-consuming tasks

related to traditional integration patterns.”

- Jim Teal, Information ArchitectiRobot

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The Challenges We Faced

Geographically distributed manufacturing

Veracity of data and quality of testing was a concern

Wanted to eliminate FTP and VPN channels

Wanted to eliminate file-based processing

Multiple SaaS applications:

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Options Considered

Oracle Data Integrator already in use in-house– Re-use existing file based integration patterns

– Establish persistent network connectivity to remote resources and rewrite ODI integrations for database to database integrations, eliminating file management

Looked at another iPaaS solution

iPaaS

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Why SnapLogic?

Software defined architecture– Control plane in Boston, data planes in China

Standards connectivity, eliminated VPNs, etc.

“Groundplexes”

Schema-less approach

Strongly-type vs. weakly typed

68 to 6 pipelines

Metadata

Data

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Next Steps with SnapLogic

New Design Pattern developed is highly reusable and we plan to expand the use cases to include additional areas like:– Quality Data Collection

– Repairs and Returns

– And many more

Expand footprint of SnapLogic with other Snaps for integration of cloud and on-premises apps to eliminate data silos

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Today’s Agenda

The Elastic Enterprise and the Integration Imperative

iRobot and iPaaS

SnapLogic Platform Introduction

Demonstration

Discussion and Next Steps

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The SnapLogic Elastic Integration PlatformElastic Data, Apps and APIs

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The SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform

Structured and Unstructured

Batch and Real Time

ETL/ELT Transforms, Aggregation, Joins, Sorts

BI, Big Data Snaps

Amazon Redshift Trial

SnapReduce 2.0

160+ Snaps

Event-Based Real-Time

Guaranteed Delivery

Cloud-to-Cloud

Cloud-to-Ground

Any Hybrid Permutation

SDK for Custom Snaps

API Delivery

Swagger, API writing, API metering

Monitoring, throttling

API Patterns: Aggregation, Mediation, Federation

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SnapLogic Modern Architecture: Elastic Scale

Cloud to On-Prem Snaplex

REST

Cloud to Cloud Snaplex

• Streams: No data is stored/cached

• Secure: 100% standards-based

• Elastic: Scales out & handles data and app integration use cases

REST

Metadata

Data

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Today’s Agenda

The Elastic Enterprise and the Integration Imperative

iRobot and iPaaS

SnapLogic Introduction

Demonstration

Discussion and Next Steps

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Why SnapLogic?

Connectivity: +160 Snaps

Modern Platform: Elastic• EAI, ETL, APIs, Hybrid Deployment• Modern Standards: REST, JSON• Scale Out Architecture

Agility: Cloud-based UX

• Easily Design, Monitor, Manage

• Deploy in Days not Months

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Legacy Integration vs. Elastic Integration

Legacy Integration Elastic Integration

Rows and Columns

Batch or Real-time

Machine Scale

Behind the Firewall

Client/Server

Any Data Type

Any Time

Any Scale

Any Location

Any Device

VS

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Discussion

@SnapLogic

Facebook/SnapLogic

www.SnapLogic.com

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Next Steps

1. Download the white paper

2. Visit www.snaplogic.com/resources for case studies, videos, data sheets, webinars, etc.

3. Contact us for a custom demonstration

www.SnapLogic.com