What is Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)?

With an elastic multi-tenant architecture, iPaaS enables multiple tenants (customer organizations) to securely share underlying physical computing resources. The iPaaS provider manages and updates the software and infrastructure, deploying upgrades at regular intervals across the customer base. This eliminates the need for customers to purchase, implement, manage and maintain the underlying hardware and software infrastructure.

iPaaS supports common transport 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.

The prevalence of SaaS applications coupled with explosive data growth often demands real-time information exchange and near real-time, low-latency processing. Having these capabilities included with the iPaaS platform means broader integration requirements are met and minimizes complexity.

Collecting anonymous platform usage metadata, aggregating it and making it available to the Boomi community reduces the time to configure, test and implement integrations. For example, as you map fields for each integration, a repository captures metadata maps that users can leverage to create new data maps. Integrations built more quickly with fewer errors result in faster time to value.

Unlike traditional middleware solutions where all integration data passes through a single bus, iPaaS integration development and management occurs in the cloud. Once developed, the integration process can be packaged in a run-time engine, which can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise, to address customer-specific security and latency considerations.

iPaaS solutions also provide 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.

Procured as a subscription service, iPaaS offers customers a predictable and manageable expense. Customers purchase only the capabilities and services they need.