Making the Cloud, Microservices, and Enterprise IT work!

For some years I've been dealing with IBM SOA oriented products. About 3 years ago I had a chance to be in an IBM center and discuss their EBS product strategy with some top IBM SOA experts. As IBM had (and now has even more) products in the space, I was trying to make sense of where to position which product that was being pitched to our large enterprise IT. At the end of the conversation I was not successful. Recently I was speaking to a top MDM expert about Oracle's product strategy in the MDM space. I was commenting on Oracle's "product", for which I had recently received a vendor pitch. He responded that Oracle has 5 products competing in the MDM space (and primary MDM tools). Today I'm trying to produce an architecture model for a medium sized IT shop that purchased IBM DataPower to include within their existing SOA model (and fit with existing tools). In my search I came across this slide from IBM... I see... one product provides fast connectivity...