Enterprise integration requirements are rapidly shifting to accommodate such trends as cloud computing, mobile devices' explosion, and increased demand for extended enterprise business processes.

Application-to-application integration inside an enterprise's four walls is well understood, but very quickly the demands placed on integration are spanning multiple enterprises, multiple types of applications, and varieties of service providers. As a result, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing are joining with legacy systems to form new and varied hybrid models that require whole new sets of integration needs and challenges.

Once these newer breeds of integrations are set up, can the old, brittle management and upkeep of them suffice -- or will agility and rapid upgrades and innovations require new tools to make integration a lifecycle function with ongoing management and more automated governance?

In the latest BriefingsDirect enterprise IT discussion, the panel examines how open-source integration projects like Apache Camel and lightweight integration implementations and graphical tools are making developers and architects more agile. At the same time, these open-source approaches are proving less vulnerable to the complexity, fragility, and cost that often plague aging commercial middleware integration products. [Learn more about the CamelOne conference May 24 in Washington, DC.]

Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, recently sat down with Rob Davies, Chief Technology Officer at FuseSource, and Debbie Moynihan, Vice President of Marketing at FuseSource, to examine the need for innovative, new, open and agile integration capabilities.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Register for CamelOne. Sponsor: FuseSource.