Your organization might still be using legacy middleware such as an enterprise service bus (ESB) or other technologies that have capably served your needs for years. But several trends have added new demands to integration requirements — demands that legacy middleware tools, or their cloud-washed facsimiles, were not designed to handle. These trends include: Adoption of best-of-breed strategies by organizations and related proliferation of diverse applications Growing importance of architectural flexibility and speed in building integrations Democratization of IT, with business units going outside IT to deploy cloud applications General shift in the “IT center of gravity” from on-premises to the cloud that includes the increasing use of mobile and social applications Rise of Big Data & the Internet of Things (IoT) To respond to today’s new technology and business requirements, organizations around the globe and across industries are increasing business agility while lowering TCO by making the switch to Boomi.