1 Founded in 1897 as a coal mining company in Ube City, Japan, Ube Industries now offers diversified products through 140+ group companies, two headquarters and multiple factories. Managing data from these companies and factories across disparate production, logistics and accounting systems requires a complex network of internal management portals, frequently delivered via SAP. Challenge Ube Industries adopted a commercial enterprise application integration (EAI) tool over a decade ago. When they first developed their ecosystem, stability and maintainability were not a problem. However, the volume and type of endpoints requiring integration increased dramatically over time and Ube’s legacy EAI tool could not scale to meet growing business needs. By 2013, the number of endpoints

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