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With the explosion of cloud services, microservices – and the increasing demands of digital transformation – enterprises are adding and removing business applications at a breakneck pace. 

Most large businesses are juggling an average of 788 custom business applications, and the number is growing.

To solve the “impossible” task of integrating the data in all these apps – and prevent apps from being siloed off into their respective departments – integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is automating the process of building app connections in the cloud-services era. In fact, the most advanced iPaaS solutions can generate REST APIs automatically. This empowers developers to establish fast, secure integrations in minutes (not weeks).

But with everyone talking about the benefits of iPaaS, aren’t there any challenges? Below, we’ll take an honest look at both the pros and cons of iPaaS – so you can determine if this technology is right for your needs.

• • iPaaS Pros
  • iPaaS Cons

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With the relative newness of the iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) vertical, no single platform has emerged as the de facto iPaaS for enterprises. This can present a challenge if you’re trying to choose among the large pool of iPaaS solutions available – especially when certain solutions labeled “iPaaS” serve very different use-cases. 

To help you sort through the rich sea of available iPaaS products, this guide starts by organizing the iPaaS market into four categories. Then it discusses each category in detail – and the specific vendors offering solutions in those categories – so you can focus on the iPaaS solution that best fits your business requirements.

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iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) technology is a powerful, easy-to-use solution for managing, governing, and integrating cloud-based applications and services. Beyond this simple definition, however, the term “iPaaS” can mean a lot of different things – depending on how your organization deploys it.

To help you understand the full length and breadth of this technology, we’ve compiled this complete list of iPaaS use cases:

1. Automatic API Generation
2. Cloud-to-Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud Integration
3. Business-to-Business (B2B) Data Integration
4. Business Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Integration
5. IoT Network Integration
6. Microservices Integration

You may find some overlap in this list; but ultimately, the best way to understand how an iPaaS can help your organization is to view it from as many use case examples as possible. Let’s start with the most exciting iPaaS use case first: Automatic API Creation.

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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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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”

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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