Integrace jako služba

The thesis deals with the field called Integration as a Service (IaaS), where the essence is to provide integration functionality in cloud computing environment. The goal of the thesis is to research from the publicly available sources, whether capabilities of the services in the field of application integration, which are labeled as integration as a service, match by the market leaders functionality of middleware. In order to achieve the goal Integration as a Service is defined and the key capabilities for these kinds of services are found. It's followed with identification of the main providers and analysis of their services. Capabilities, which should be achieved by the IaaS services, are based upon the definitions and characteristics of middleware, cloud computing and services in general. Together they create a standard, which can be used to evaluate these services. That's utilized in the practical part, where the analysis of the particular IaaS services takes place. Also the questions regarding expected capabilities of the services, their fulfillment and the level of publicly available information about the services are answered in this part.