Computer News Middle East: Cognizant’s President of Technology Solutions Talks About Enterprise Application Integration

“With many businesses taking to the cloud on their own, centralizing security policies for such initiatives and ensuring implementation by the system integrator/SaaS provider becomes very important,” says Debashis Chatterjee. “In classic B2B transactions such as EDI and managed file transfer, enterprises need to be constantly monitored to ensure that communications with trading partners are conducted securely and are not subject to breaches.”

Chatterjee adds, “An increased use of mobile, cloud solutions and API-based integration to SAAS platforms poses new challenges for managing and securing these services, while still meeting delivery SLAs, performance, scalability, and so on. Complex and wide-ranging services that include cloud or SaaS platforms and external partner services require securing and efficiently managing such critical services and often, addressing compliance and risk requirements as well. In this context, CIOs need to ensure that applications are available on cloud and that all transactions are conducted securely. Enterprises should not be exposed to attacks such as DOS (denial of service), which could pull down the business.”

Chatterjee is all too aware of the role of EAI projects play in terms of business-IT alignment. “While traditionally these investments were thought to be a cost center, CIOs are today linking the cost of investment to revenue increases, decrease in lead time on various business processes, elimination of waste and lost revenues,” he says.

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