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iPaaS Benefits: 8 Reasons Why Businesses Are Flocking to Integration Platform as a Service

Modern enterprises require a host of applications to manage their bookkeeping, inventory, marketing, and more. Finding powerful applications to cover these needs isn’t very difficult, but building the integrations that synchronize data between these solutions can be costly and labor-intensive while requiring enormous amounts of technical expertise.

This is where Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) technology can help. In fact, modern iPaaS solutions are blowing through app integration barriers by empowering users to connect applications without writing any code – in some cases, allowing you to generate APIs for app integrations in a matter of minutes. 

Below, we’ve outlined eight business-transforming benefits of iPaaS technology. But first, let’s define what iPaaS technology is and how organizations are using it.

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What is Loose Coupling in REST APIs?

What is Loose Coupling- Its Importance in REST API Design?

One of the most important ideas in the world of software engineering is the concept of loose coupling. In a loosely coupled design, components are independent, and changes in one will not affect the operation of others. This approach offers optimal flexibility and re-usability when components are added, replaced, or modified.

Loosely Coupled vs Tightly Coupled

Conversely, a tightly coupled design means that components tend to be interdependent. Changes in a single component can have a system wide impact, with unanticipated and undesirable effects.

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Dell Boomi: Reviews, Pricing, and Comparison

Is Dell Boomi the best API management tool? Discover Boomi reviews, pricing, and some alternatives to Dell Boomi.

In less than a decade, cloud computing has gone from being a tech industry buzzword to a well-established best practice. The cloud is so popular that the vast majority of businesses are now using a “multi-cloud” strategy with two or more cloud providers—94 percent of enterprises, according to a study from McKinsey & Company.

Yet with so many applications and data scattered across multiple environments, organizations need a way to efficiently integrate their IT processes and workflows. It’s for this reason that many companies are turning to cloud integration software like Boomi.

Boomi—short for Dell Boomi—is a popular cloud integration and API management platform from Dell. This article will give a comprehensive, in-depth overview of everything you need to know: the features of Boomi, the pros and cons of Boomi, the Boomi pricing model, as well as user reviews of Boomi and the most popular Boomi alternatives. Continue reading “Dell Boomi: Reviews, Pricing, and Comparison”

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What is iPaaS? Definition and Benefits

These days organizations commonly rely upon dozens of databases, applications, and third-party services for powering critical business infrastructure such as web and mobile applications, business analytics, and customer outreach initiatives. Examples of such indispensable technologies include Microsoft SQL Server, Salesforce, and Intercom. Because this operational infrastructure can’t operate effectively in a silo, companies increasingly require ways to interweave the data managed therein, creating software-based bridges known as *integrations*.

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Data Warehouse or Data Lake?

There are essentially two paths to strategic data storage. The path you choose before you bring in the data will determine what’s possible in your future. Although your company’s objectives and resources will normally suggest the most reasonable path, it’s important to establish a good working knowledge of both paths now, especially as new technologies and capabilities gains wider acceptance.

We’ll name these paths for their destinations: The Warehouse or the Lake. As you stand here are the fork in the data road considering which way to go, we’ve assembled a key to what these paths represent and a map to what could be waiting at the end of each road.

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Convert Excel to JSON Using DreamFactory

Excel to JSON Conversion with DreamFactory

If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, some of his his famous words would have instead read, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes and Excel“. Microsoft’s ubiquitous spreadsheet application is as firmly embedded within the corporate world as TPS reports and the reek of a poorly chosen microwavable lunch (I swear it wasn’t fish). Given their prominence, it’s no surprise developers often spend a great deal of time wrangling spreadsheets, and among other questions wonder how to convert Excel to JSON format. Doing so is incredibly useful for a variety of reasons. Among other uses the JSON format would allow you to:

  • Render the spreadsheet within a web page using a JavaScript tabular library such as Tabulator or DataTables.
  • Periodically import the spreadsheet data into a database.
  • Manipulate the spreadsheet data before importing it into any number of other systems or services.
  • Parse the spreadsheet and deliver e-mail or text notifications based on values or thresholds.

The initial use case is particularly critical, because departments often use Excel as a group-based metric reporting tool. Frustration often sets in due to numerous duplicate and outdated versions eventually entering circulation. Of course there are more sophisticated solutions for workbook sharing, SharePoint being chief among them, however adoption of such technologies isn’t as widespread as Excel itself. So how can one go about sanely converting Excel workbooks to JSON?

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