Applications in the cloud cost less than 10% of an on-premises application.
The support demonstrates how connectors like MySQL Wire Protocol will help create transparency between cloud services and any on-premise application.
Although the tenant may trust the provider with the data in the SaaS application, it does not necessarily trust the provider with this sensitive on-premise application data and wants to keep it confidential.
In order to alleviate this problem, the APIs made available by the SaaS service should be interoperable with the interface provided by the on-premise application or data that is being replaced.
But it has created enough disruption in the market that now IT shops all over the world are thinking twice about their investments in their own data centers and on-premise application portfolios.
Now, that same customer, in order for them to answer a very simple question such as, "Did we actually get an order from a customer," or, "How much did we pay the sales reps," would have to integrate information from Salesforce.com with all the management information that is typically in some on-premise application, with sales compensation information that is also managed on-premise.
The C-suite and procurement leaders face a common dilemma when choosing procurement software: should the new software system be an "on-premises" application or a cloud solution?
MuleSoft lets organizations integrate their cloud and on-premise applications.
Developers can use the same development tools, frameworks and execution environment for either cloud or on-premise applications.
And the third is the shift from on-premise applications to cloud-based services.
Figure 1 Large organizations such as hospitals employ both SaaS applications and on-premise applications, leading to a federated setup.
