SnapLogic announced the summer 2015 release of its Elastic Integration Platform, which features improved support for self-service cloud and big data integration. The release includes new capabilities for reusable components, data governance, and big data/cloud analytics. SnapLogic aims to simplify integration and make it accessible for non-experts through an intuitive interface and reusable "Snaps" integration components.

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SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform Released
In July of 2015, SnapLogic announced the summer 2015 release of its SnapLogic Elastic Integration
Platform, providing broader support for self-service cloud and big data integration in the enterprise. This
ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) impact brief details the announcement and
recognizes SnapLogic’s innovation in the data integration and data governance spaces.
SnapLogic Leads Industry in Unified Data
and Application Integration
On July 21, 2015, SnapLogic announced the summer 2015 release of its SnapLogic Elastic Integration
Platform. The new release improves the platform’s support for self-service cloud application and big data
integration in the enterprise with new governance and component reuse capabilities for self-service users
and those who provision them. Gaurav Dhillon, CEO of SnapLogic states that “SnapLogic continues
to transform the integration market with an intuitive interface and reusable, snap-together components
that open up integration to the non-expert. Change is inevitable, and a
modern integration platform that is powerful, yet easy to use and expand
allows enterprise IT organizations to respond to change faster and future-
proof their application and data infrastructure.”
SnapLogic is a unified data and application integration platform as a service
(iPaaS). SnapLogic’s modern architecture is powered by more than 300
Snaps, prebuilt integration components that simplify and automate complex
enterprise integration processes. Funded by leading venture investors,
including Andreessen Horowitz and Ignition Partners, and cofounded by
Gaurav Dhillon, cofounder and former CEO of Informatica, the SnapLogic
Elastic Integration Platform enables leading enterprises to connect faster and
gain a better return on their cloud application and big data investments.
Key Observations
• Simplified Component Reuse – New usability and impact analysis capabilities help expert
and citizen application and data integrators quickly assemble data flow pipelines from reusable
components and understand the impact of their work before committing changes.
• New Governance Capabilities – Enhancement of governance capabilities have been made available
to administrators as well as statistical analysis reports, activity logs, and read-only access.
• Continued Improvements in Big Data and Cloud Analytics – The Hadooplex now supports
improved availability with Hadoop Namenode failover, is easier to optimize and debug with a new
administration interface, and features better auto-update support to minimize manual installation.
• Updated Snaps – SnapLogic continues to strengthen its catalog of reusable enterprise Snaps,
connecting on-premises applications, SaaS applications, and big data sources.
• Details – For more details on the announcement, go to http://www.snaplogic.com/press-releases/
snaplogic-expands-self-service-integration-for-the-agile-enterprise
Creating Agility Through Data Governance
and Self-service Integration with SnapLogic
Change is inevitable, and a
modern integration platform
that is powerful, yet easy
to use and expand allows
enterprise IT organizations to
respond to change faster and
future-proof their application
and data infrastructure.”

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EMA Perspective
Organizations continue to face data challenges and struggle with managing and integrating their data
assets. SnapLogic addresses these challenges by coupling continued improvements to data access and
management with ease of use.
SnapLogic has added usability and impact analysis capabilities to enable reuse and pipeline analysis.
Organizations can view and manage their scheduled tasks, their data pipelines, and their lifecycles. With
the plethora of data being captured by organizations, added complexities and business rules make it
challenging to effectively maintain the processes associated with data integration and make sure that
time is being used effectively. The ability to manage pipelines and reuse components makes the enterprise
more effective when overseeing their data integration activities and projects.
Enhancing data governance capabilities through added visibility and traceability into activities is
essential for organizations looking to ensure data integrity and information value. Businesses
consistently struggle with governance issues. Integrating diverse data sources and types of data adds to
the challenge of environments that are already complicated to manage. By integrating data governance
within data integration capabilities, organizations can leverage both business and technical expertise
to ensure that information is managed effectively across the data pipeline and make sure that potential
issues are identified proactively. Additionally, limiting access to certain users but granting read-only
access makes data management activities more accessible and easier for the organization to govern
data on a broader scale.
SnapLogic has expanded its support for big data and cloud analytics through improved availability
with Hadoop Namenode failover, a new administration interface, and new cloud analytics Snaps to
expand access to more data sets. As more organizations leverage multistructured data and information
in the cloud, access to these sources needs to become intuitive within the data integration process.
Through self-service data integration and access to a wider variety of data sources, SnapLogic supports
organizations in the ability to access more diverse data. Providing additional support for Hadoop also
supports quicker time to value over time.
The use of Snaps to connect data highlights SnapLogic’s goal of providing self-service data integration.
Improving Snaps for easier integration helps customers connect their disparate data sources and makes
it easier for organizations to not only acquire data, but support broader transformations as well. This
includes improving Snaps such as Sort, XML Formatter, and Excel Parser. The easier it is to transform
data, the more usable it is by businesses.
SnapLogic’s summer 2015 release focuses on key trends within the broader
data management industry. By providing better support for big data and
cloud data sources and improving governance capabilities, SnapLogic is
focusing on the framework required to implement strong data management
in addition to integration. Enhancing self-service components through better
task management and overall Snap use also shows a strong commitment to
providing customers with a way to manage the full data acquisition lifecycle
through a reusable framework. Due to these enhancements, EMA recognizes
SnapLogic for its commitment to strong data integration and governance and
for focusing on addressing organizations’ data challenges.
By providing better support
for big data and cloud data
sources and improving
governance capabilities,
SnapLogic is focusing on
the framework required
to implement strong
data management in
addition to integration.
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