Fiorano Launches Cloud-Based ESB for SOA, Integration 
Fiorano Software is bringing its enterprise service bus (ESB) to the cloud. Fiorano Cloud Platform, built on the Fiorano ESB, aims to let companies more easily integrate Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and on-premise resources – and gain centralized control over them all.
Fiorano Software is bringing its enterprise service bus (ESB) to the cloud. Fiorano Cloud Platform is built on the Fiorano ESB and aims to let companies more easily integrate Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and on-premise resources – and give them centralized control.
The inherent limitations and problems of the traditional (on-premise) integration and the SaaS Integration (Integration as a service) approaches can be overcome via a hybrid of the two, based on a Peer-to-Peer, Cloud ESB platform, according to Atul Saini, Fiorano’s CEO.
Fiorano’s Cloud platform blends cloud-based integration, high-availability messaging and general business-process integration. The result is a cloud-based integration services environment that lets companies integrate cloud-based applications with on-premise apps and resources, according to Saini.
Under the covers, Fiorano’s Cloud Platform approach is “a hybrid version of the traditional on-premise integration model and the contemporary Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) model,” according to Saini. The approach aims to provide enterprise architects centralized control of all their cloud-based and on-premise resources, while maintaining the efficiency of peer-to-peer architectures, he added.
The Fiorano Cloud Platform provides:
- Access to data-sources via web-services or via messaging and other APIs
- Separate peer-servers for SaaS and PaaS clouds, to ensure applications within a given cloud are efficiently integrated
- Efficient peer-to-peer communications to provide seamless, real-time and flexible integration with no bottlenecks.
- In-built messaging and queuing capability to provide global data-flow and event-flow visibility across the entire network – including SaaS applications and applications hosted in PaaS frameworks (such as Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, Google Application Engine and Force.com)
Key business benefits of the Fiorano Cloud Platform include:
- Cross over business process integration,
- Flexibility to access data across various sources,
- High-availability messaging across global resources, including outsourcing partners and cloud-based SaaS and PaaS-based services, and (4) Pay-as-you-go infrastructure.
The Fiorano Cloud Platform is currently hosted on the Amazon EC2,
“We have already seen significant user interest in the Fiorano Cloud,” including among government and healthcare firms, Saini said in a statement.
Fiorano's Cloud platform leverages Fiorano ESB and Fiorano Message Queue (MQ), which provide an event-driven SOA platform that integrates applications and complex technologies to increase business process performance, yield higher message throughput and enhance availability through agent-based visual composition.
