For many years, organizations have made huge expenditure to build custom applications and infrastructure running on premise. Most of this custom-built applications hold major portion of business-centric data. With shift toward cloud and global market, businesses are required to share the data in one or another form to the customers and the partners in a secure manner. The business is also making huge investments in cloud offerings looking at the benefits, such as auto-scaling, pay-as-you-use, multiple SaaS products, and PaaS offerings.

The challenges these organizations are facing is to bridge on-premise resources sitting behind a corporate firewall with the cloud. To solve this mission-critical issue, the term Hybrid Integration has gained popularity in recent times. In a hybrid cloud infrastructure approach, customers use cloud to deploy servers and platforms within an extended network connected to their local domain. Hybrid solutions span over cloud (public, private, or community) and on-premise resources. It is a key enabler to use the already existing systems and data with SaaS and PaaS offerings of the cloud. Hybrid Integration makes a robust way to innovate with existing data, take competitive advantage, and create a new business model: