Cloud Integration at iRobot: Powering the Elastic Enterprise
Cloud Integration at iRobot: Powering the Elastic Enterprise
Jan 15, 2015
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.
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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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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
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