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iPaaS Tools: Comparison of iPaaS Solutions

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.

iPaaS Use Cases: How Enterprises Are Using Integration Platform as a Service Technology

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.

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.

ESB and API Management: Which One and Why?

With new systems, applications, and data sources added on a regular basis, IT environments are growing more complex than ever before. To deal with this complexity, organizations are relying on API management solutions that make their environments more tightly connected, facilitating information exchange. It’s no surprise, then, that the API management industry has never been stronger.

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.

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.

Convert Excel to JSON Using 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).