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Mark Hall

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Integrate on-demand services

Simon Peel acknowledges that "90 percent of SaaS integration is with on-premises applications," but that hasn't stopped his company from introducing an appliance for SaaS to SaaS integration.

Peel is the senior vice president of marketing and business strategy for Cast Iron Systems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., which makes color-coded hardware appliances that are pre-configured for app-to-app integration. And today the company is releasing one (in the color purple) that links your Salesforce.com service to your NetSuite on-demand app.

The appliance comes out of the box ready with application programming interface (API) compatibility between NetSuite and Salesforce as well as handling session management issues, so when one of the services is offline for, say, maintenance, you can still work as if it were online. The system features connectivity, data transformation and workflow capabilities. For those of you who have done some customization to either service, Cast Iron offers a visual mapping tool to link those changes to the other SaaS operation.

SaaS to SaaS integration is a new, virtually uncharted area, but one that will be essential if the promise of on-demand software is going to be a real, long-term choice for corporate IT.

The Cast Iron appliance can be run in your data center or used as a service. Pricing starts at $1,500 per month.

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