We are proud to announce the General Availability of the latest version of our flagship enterprise offering, Kong Enterprise 2020. At last year’s Kong Summit, we announced our vision for the service control platform to serve as an intelligent information broker for the enterprise. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve taken the service control platform vision one step further to enable organizations worldwide to manage and optimize the entire service lifecycle.

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).

Corporations are diverse. Consequently, the software needed to support business units tends to vary. In fact, more than eight out of 10 corporations now run multiple cloud solutions, according to Forrester Research. With recent outages across major cloud providers making news and impacting millions of customers, organizations are rightfully assessing how a multi-cloud approach can mitigate downtime risk. In this new environment, one challenge is managing the different cloud solutions.

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We’re pleased to announce that our first release in the 1.4 series is out! Our engineering team and awesome community members added numerous new features, improvements and fixes in this release. Read below on the most relevant changes in Kong Gateway 1.4 and how you can make the most of these additions. Please refer to the Changelog for complete details and the Upgrade Path for instructions on how to upgrade from previous Kong versions.

In 2018, the forecast for the iPaaS market was to grow by an astonishing 42.1% CAGR to reach a global market valuation of US $8.6billion by 2024. A considerably more recent forecast suggested a moderate, yet ‘robustly’ positive CAGR of 11.9% to reach $1.2 billion by 2022. Of all the forecasts for the global integration platform as a service (iPaaS) market, this estimate is probably the most restrained to hit the headlines in a while.