ITBusinessEdge interviewed SnapLogic CEO Chris Marino about SnapLogic software and Really Simple Integration. Here's an excerpt:

We're introducing a technique that we believe solves this problem in a unique way, and we’re calling it Really Simple Integration. What we mean is it works just like the Web; you can Google, you can use your browser, you can use URLs, you can cut and paste in your desktop applications, you can use any Web-based technology you want and it fits seamlessly.

What we’re trying to do is establish this very Web-friendly integration paradigm, that we believe can span organizations, that can span technical boundaries, and also, very importantly, to overlay onto all of your existing infrastructure so your Web servers work, your VPNs work, your caching servers work, all your security infrastructure works, and most importantly, everybody knows how this works. There's almost no training involved. People know how to manipulate URLs, people know how to Google, or keywords.

Read the full Q&A here.