What is iPaaS?

Integration Platform as a Service is a single, centralized tool that unifies the integration of applications used within a company and automates data flow.

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Defining Integration Platform as a Service

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) enables companies to achieve their digital transformation goals faster by unifying application and data integration, API management, workflow automation, B2B/EDI partners, and master data management in a single, scalable, cloud-based solution.

Single-instance, multi-tenant architecture

The flexible architecture of iPaaS enables multiple organizations to share underlying computing resources securely – saving time and money. The iPaaS provider manages and updates the software and infrastructure while deploying upgrades regularly across the customer base. This eliminates the need for customers to purchase, implement, and manage hardware and software.

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Pre-built connectors and recipes

Pre-built connectors of common integrations such as Salesforce and NetSuite to drastically reduce development time, so you see faster time to value with critical business systems.

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AI-powered integration tools

A radical new way of connecting systems, processes, data, and people in a conversational user experience by leveraging the anonymized metadata from over 200 million integrations.

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Enterprise and B2B/EDI integration 

Boomi supports common data transmission methods and provides universal translation capabilities for non-standard data formats. It also supports a wide variety of enterprise integration scenarios, including B2B/EDI, standards-based web services, and industry-specific standards such as HL7 for healthcare.

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Real-time integration processes

Boomi Event Streams allows organizations to create more resilient, scalable, and real-time integrations than traditional point-to-point integration processes – all without the inherent complexity and overhead traditionally associated with event-driven architectures.

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Distributed run-time 

Unlike traditional, legacy middleware solutions where all integration data passes through a single bus and lightweight cloud-only solutions, Boomi integration development and management is cloud-native with the ability to deploy anywhere. Integrations can be packaged as run-time engines in the cloud, on-premises, at the edge – to address customer-specific security, data sovereignty, and latency considerations.

Centralized API management 

Boomi provides an intuitive, web-based console for creating, deploying, monitoring, and managing integrations across the enterprise. Customers gain a single, centralized view of all integration processes.

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Predictable, affordable pricing

Boomi’s subscription service offers customers a predictable, transparent, and understandable pricing structure – with no surprises. Customers purchase only the functionality and services they need.

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Five Must-Have Capabilities in a Modern iPaaS

In this guide, learn what Constellation says about:
  • Legacy and emerging challenges to using data
  • Key iPaaS recommendations
  • What to ask when evaluating vendors
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Why Boomi iPaaS?

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Maintaining Business-Critical Integrations

Enterprise connectivity challenge

Limited internal resources can result in tools that are difficult to learn and use.

  • Requires expensive, hard-to-find developer talent
  • Slower time to value when hand-coding integrations
  • Additional technical debt can eat up budget
  • Manual updates increase downtime
  • Requires point-to-point, custom connectors for new software

Centralized, Always-On Integration Management

iPaaS Solution

  • End-to-end managed services for all integrations
  • Regular, automatic updates
  • Highest level of integration security
  • Addresses sustainability concerns by reducing data center footprint 
  • Pre-built connectors for popular software, plus HTTPS/API/FTP for custom work

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Rigid, Unreliable Data Pipelines

Data Productivity Challenge

  • Process data in batches leads to data access delays
  • Limited to processing structured data in most cases
  • Focused toward on-premises integration

Real-time Integration Architecture

iPaaS Solution

  • Real-time architecture for efficient operations and data access
  • Works with structured and unstructured data formats
  • On-premises, cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments

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Limited Deployment and Scalability

ESB Connectivity Challenge

  • ESB is built for integrating internal systems and isn’t designed for third-party data connectors
  • Single-tenant architecture makes it challenging for businesses to scale resources and operations

Multi-tenant, Hybrid Architecture

iPaaS Solution

  • iPaaS can integrate internal applications and data from outside sources like customers, partners, and suppliers
  • iPaaS supports muti-tenancy for companies that need speed and scale.

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Unreliable Data and Black-box Architecture

Point-to-Point Integration Challenge

  • Building daisy chains of app-to-app integrations contributes to “spaghetti” architecture and can result in unreliable data
  • Managing integrations within various tools throughout the organization is time-consuming, confusing, and hard to document.

Multi-Tenant Architecture + Composable Integration

iPaaS solution

  • iPaaS can integrate internal applications and data from outside sources like customers, partners, and suppliers
  • iPaaS supports muti-tenancy for companies that need speed and scale.

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The Challenges of Enterprise Integration

Integrating business systems creates richer relationships with customers, partners, and vendors. But it’s not easy when technology landscapes are expanding at an unprecedented speed, resulting in disconnected data. There are many obstacles on the road to a connected enterprise.

  • Silence between systems

    Businesses want to take advantage of best-of-breed applications. But when systems can’t easily communicate, it creates data silos, requires manual workflows, and slows operations.

  • Overwhelmed IT resources

    Relying only on limited developer resources to build application integrations is time-consuming and can lead to an IT bottleneck that slows the business.

  • Data governance issues

    Integrating sensitive personal data requires the highest level of security and compliance – especially in industries like finance and healthcare.

  • Difficulty managing integrations

    Maintaining and updating internally built integrations is an ongoing expense that drains IT budgets while hampering business agility.

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Avoid the digital transformation failure trap

Explore how a modern integration and automation platform addresses:
  • “Islands of applications” as a result of disparate software as a service apps
  • Fragmentation from exponential growth in data, locations, sources, and more
  • Generations of legacy technology that must be integrated with modern apps
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