In the era of rapid technological advancements, the abundance of information often leaves us overwhelmed, while the true knowledge remains scarce. Although technology has the potential to drive business success, the deluge of details can sometimes lead to confusion, hindering organizations from making informed decisions.
For businesses to scale rapidly, evolve in the marketplace, collaborate effectively, and communicate efficiently across multiple systems, integration is vital to do so. It is a juggernaut that unites the entirety of your tech stack and provides a comprehensive ecosystem for your organization.
Selecting the right enterprise integration tool can be daunting. With the right integration solution, you can save a lot of time and resources, explore numerous potential opportunities and leverage your business to optimal success. Before you finalize the right iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) for your business, answer these questions.
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Questions to ask before selecting the iPaaS
- Do I just have a handful of integrations or are there too many systems and applications that needs to be integrated?
- Do I need a specific security compliance with the integration solution?
- Will I have to go with the batch process or does my business require real-time integration?
- Will the resources available in-house manage the integration themselves? How about their expertise in the particular platform? How will I hire more?
- Does the platform allow on-prem and cloud deployments?
- Does the platform support custom application connectors?
- What is the scope of native connections in the integration platform?
- Does it fit in with my organizational expense budget?
We’ve performed thorough studies of leading iPaaS (Integration platform as a service) platforms and compiled our results to visualize and guide you to make the right decision for your business.
Boomi
Boomi is a cloud-native integration platform leading the market with its easy-to-use no code low code development features, support of various use cases, and its creation of a 360-degree visibility across the organization’s integration ecosystem to increase productivity tenfold. Boomi is highly scalable if you have large enterprises as it comes with a lightweight runtime engine, pre-built starter templates, process libraries, and integration accelerators. It also gives you the convenience of 2000+ connectors.
Differentiator: Supports a wide range of use cases, from integrated workflows to end-to-end connectivity allowing you to have a high degree of automation.
Supports
- Cloud to Cloud
- SaaS to SaaS (software-as-a-service)
- Cloud to On-Premise System
- On-premise to On-premise
- B2B integration
Core feature
- Configuration Management
- Connectivity Management
- Dashboard
- Data Connectors
- Data Management
- API Lifecycle Management
- Big Data Analytics
Business Benefits
- High Customer Satisfaction
- Connection based pricing
- A well-established community
- Low code development
- Flexible billing
- Frequent automated updates
- Easy to use and faster integration
- Intelligent platform for in-depth business insights
- Full stack security
Real-life use case with Boomi:
- Integrating Boomi with the LOS and eliminating a legacy middleware
- If you have multiple software for sales, finance, and education, Boomi will help you integrate and eliminate manual data entry tasks between these systems
- Have a legacy database and want to have a global payment platform? Boomi will connect the platform globally through API –led connectivity
- Integrating 15+ different applications and databases for a domestic logistic company
- Enabling targeted marketing by linking an e-commerce portal to the marketing platform
Well, if you have a large enterprise and want to accelerate your business, by integrating the systems, applications, and processes while eliminating the Silos systems, then Boomi is the best and the most intelligent solution for you.
MuleSoft
MuleSoft is an open-source platform that unifies multiple integrations, APIs, and connectors rapidly. MuleSoft’s AnyPoint Platform will help you in developing, distributing, monitoring, and testing APIs, all from the same platform in a quick and organized manner. It has a globally distributed architecture that ensures a high-resilience supporting role-based access to the cloud through AnyPoint.
Differentiator: Cloud Hub capability that gives you a multi-tenant, fully-managed, and elastic hosting environment for your integration landscape.
Supports
- Cloud to Cloud
- SaaS to SaaS (software-as-a-service)
- Cloud to On-Premise System
- On-premise to On-premise
- B2B integration
Core feature
- App Integration
- Data Transformation
- Anypoint Management Center
- Anypoint Design Center
- Hybrid Deployment
- Real-Time Integration
- Big Data Analytics
- Great Monitoring (Environment Monitoring – Prod and Non-prod)
Business Benefits
- Hybrid deployment
- Billing by volume
- API led connectivity
- Salesforce ownership
- Get to market faster
- Improve agility
- Future-proof organization
- Increase customer engagement
- Reduce the cost
- Eliminate security breach
Real life use cases with MuleSoft:
- Digitizing the customer onboarding process for banks and the finance industry.
- Modernize the legacy applications by exposing them as APIs
- Build a 360-degree view of your customers and view the entire customer journey through API led connectivity
- Launch your e-commerce platform faster using APIs and pre-built connectors
Microsoft Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft Azure Logic Apps is an integration service for applications with the Microsoft Azure offering. It provides a suite of apps like Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, and Event grids respectively for various use cases. You can easily connect any cloud or on-prem applications using Azure but, it’s easier to connect Azure iPaaS to other services in the Microsoft Azure Platform.
You also get over 300+ Azure Logic App connectors for industry-standard B2B formats such as EDIFACT, XML, and AS2. When you have applications that are not commonly used, you can leverage custom connectors within Azure Logic Apps.
Differentiator: With numerous data centers around the world, it allows you to back up your data from various places
Supports
- Cloud to Cloud
- Cloud to On-Premise System
- On-premise to On-premise
Core feature
- Simplify complex orchestration problems
- Visually integrate data sources
- Create workflows easily and orchestrate hundreds of business processes
- Publish your APIs securely for internal and external developers
- Use AI features and comprehend predictions
Business Benefits
- Consumption- based pricing
- Free trial
- Minimal coding required
- Maintenance taken care by Microsoft platform
- Professional security from global threats
- Environmental transparency with Microsoft Sustainability Calculator
Real-life use cases with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps:
- Enable your customers to track their orders from anywhere
- Unify disparate systems into a single platform
- Provide your on-site workers with real-time stats on the inventory
Now that you have seen the top 3 integration platforms, their features, benefits, and use cases, it’s time to pick the best one for your business. Select the one that’s most suitable for your business.
But now that you’ve made your decision, how are you going to implement your chosen platform?
Boomi, MuleSoft, or Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, we are just a call away for you.
We have a pool of qualified and experienced integrators, who can help you with the strategies and integrations. Our experts can provide you with consultation, and development while giving you an end-to-end transformation.
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