Salesforce acquires Mulesoft to put integration firmly on the map

Salesforce's acquisition of Mulesoft for $6.5 billion marks a significant development in driving IT efficiency across enterprises. Mulesoft is a solution for building application networks that connect enterprise apps, data, and devices across any cloud or on-premise system. The acquisition enables the two companies to accelerate customers' digital transformations, unlocking data across application or endpoint to create a consistent, accurate, and real-time view of a customer's application-stack performance. The importance of integration is highlighted in the deal. It is crucial that enterprises think about how valuable information flows across their organization and how integration can optimize that flow at critical points.