Hubspan Raises the Bar on B2B Scalability
Posted by Margaret Dawson on November 30, 2010
This morning, Hubspan announced an update to its WebSpan SaaS Integration Platform focused on increased scalability and processing of large, complex messages. This platform update includes enhancements at both the application and infrastructure layers, such as improved massive payload handling, particularly for messages leveraging the AS2 protocol, and optimized message processing and caching.
This is intended to keep our cloud integration platform ahead of the curve for performance and scalability based on clear trends we are seeing around message volume, size and complexity for B2B process integration.
For example, with file transfer, we are seeing in excess of 20 GB and at times up to 40 GB. With more complex messages, such as AS2, we are seeing a trend toward 40 to 45 Megabytes, and we expect that to trend toward 100 MB over the next 12 to 18 months. And for XML files, the sizes are even larger, with files going beyond 100 MB, and we expect those to hit 200 MB to even 1 GB in the future.
Driving this trend are a few things. First, just an increase in multi-enterprise collaboration and information exchange, resulting in an increased volume in B2B integration transactions. Hubspan has seen its customers increase transactional volume by 50% on average with some doubling volume over the past 12 months. At the same time, B2B messages are becoming more complex because of advanced business rules, data correlation and validation, and security policies associated with them.
For these reasons and others, companies need integration service providers with scalable, on-demand solutions, such as Hubspan, to meet this challenge.
In fact, Gartner says companies have discovered that multi-enterprise integration consumes significant resources and is not as simple as originally assumed, particularly as B2B projects scale up in terms of managing an increasing number of external business partners, and increasing B2B transaction and message volume. According to Gartner, over the next five years the complexity of multi-enterprise integration will force companies to switch 20% of their internally managed B2B projects to external service providers. (Hype Cycle for Application Infrastructure, 2010 by Jess Thompson, Benoit J. Lheureux)
Importantly, since our platform is single-instance, multi-tenant, all 20,000 global connections in our integration community benefit from any incremental improvement we make to the platform. This update provides a level of performance and scalability few companies could accomplish on their own, and building this scalability yourself would take a large investment in hardware, software and implementation.
Tags: B2B Integration, Cloud Computing, Gartner, Multitenancy, Phil Wainewright
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