In today's world where digital transformation is accelerating rapidly, application and data integration solutions are playing an increasingly crucial role within organizations. International Data Corporation predicts that by 2027, the global integration market will exceed $18 billion, with an annual growth rate of over 16%. IBM has announced an agreement with Software AG to acquire the latter's webMethods and StreamSets for $2.3 billion. This acquisition will help enhance IBM's position in application integration, API management, and data integration, strengthen the data ingestion capabilities of its watsonx AI and data platform, and enable customers to utilize more integration and API management tools in hybrid multi-cloud environments.