An integration solution must bridge the gap between the on-premise existing systems and new cloud applications, platform, and infrastructure, providing a rapid and easy-to-use method of setting up the integrations. IBM® WebSphere® Cast Iron® provides a solution that meets the challenge of integrating cloud applications with on-premise systems, cloud applications-to-cloud applications, and on-premise to on-premise applications. For example, the WebSphere Cast Iron solution can help to synchronize account records between an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system.

With the WebSphere Cast Iron solution, you can integrate applications in days, freeing up scarce resources, maximixing cloud user productivity, and saving as much as 80 percent on integration costs.

Cloud computing has become a business evolution that is impacting all facets of business today, including sales, marketing, human capital management, supply chain, finance, manufacturing, quoting, ordering, service, support, and email. As each function moves to the cloud, it requires migration and integration. Additionally, each vendor that provides a cloud solution creates its own interface to the application. This fact creates a challenge in IT organizations of companies of all sizes and locations as they attempt to understand and then manage these unique application interfaces and integrate applications from cloud to cloud and cloud to on premise.

An integration solution must bridge the gap between the on-premise existing systems and new cloud applications, platform, and infrastructure, providing a rapid and easy-to-use method of setting up the integrations. IBM® WebSphere® Cast Iron® provides a solution that meets the challenge of integrating cloud applications with on-premise systems, cloud applications-to-cloud applications, and on-premise to on-premise applications, as shown in Figure 1.


Figure 1. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

The WebSphere Cast Iron environment focuses on the business requirements, the applications, and the business user requirements, while removing the daunting complexity of integration.


Did you know?

The Carbon Disclosure Project estimates that by 2020, US organizations could save US$12.3 billion in energy costs and the energy equivalent of 200,000,000 barrels of oil by moving to the cloud. (Source: Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Century, Carbon Disclosure Project Study, 2011: https://www.cdproject.net/en-US/WhatWeDo/Pages/Cloud-Computing.aspx)


Business value

By using WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration for a simplified experience, midsized and large companies achieve the following benefits: