Integrating or customizing SaaS within your own cloud environment
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 23 June 2021Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are often a quick way to get new capabilities into an organization’s portfolio. Smaller SaaS solutions are simple, web-based solutions which barely integrate with the organization’s other solutions, besides the identity and access management (which is often handled by federated authentication).
More complex or intermediate solutions require more integration focus, and a whole new market of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions came up to facilitate cross-cloud integrations. But even without the iPaaS offerings, integrations are often a mandatory part to leverage the benefits of the newly activated SaaS solution.
In this post I want to bring some thoughts on the integrations that might be needed to support customizing a SaaS solution.