Integration Platform as a Service (iPaas) is the new and highly emerging platform that businesses are using to gain higher productivity and efficiency in their business. An #iPaaS is a smart and robust platform that seamlessly connects, synchronizes and relates data between various applications to bring all the information under one single roof.
To help and educate people more on iPaaS and how it would digitally transform and help their business, we recently organized a #Webinar on "Digital Transformation with Integration Platform as a Service".
The major points covered in the webinar were:
•What is iPaaS?
•How cloud can help a business to grow.
•Types of cloud software delivery.
•Benefits of iPaaS in eBusiness
•Understanding protocols on network communication
•Data Integration vs Application Integration
•What to expect from an iPaaS platform.
•Digital Transformation with iPaaS - A Success Story
Check out the Webinar Recap Slides!
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Webinar: Digital Transformation With Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)
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2. ABHISHEK SUR
• VP Products at InSync Tech-Fin Solutions
• Most Valuable Professional at Microsoft
• Software Innovator at Intel
• Author
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3. AGENDA
• How Cloud can help a business to grow.
• Types of cloud software delivery.
• What is an iPaaS ?
• Benefits of iPaaS in business
• Understanding protocols on network communication
• Data Integration vs Application Integration
• What to expect from an iPaaS platform.
• Digital Transformation with iPaaS - APPSeCONNECT Success Story
4. WHY CLOUD IS FUTURE ?
• Increased adoption / traction of cloud applications.
SAP S4 Hana – By Design, MS Dynamics 365, Netsuite, Salesforce.
• Cloud is considered as a first class citizen for businesses worldwide - why should you or
we be on premise ?
• Cloud is a highly secured zone having lesser downtime, network or any infrastructure
issues.
• Infinitely scalable- the more power you need, cloud can scale in or scale out easily.
• No capital investment.
8. WHAT IS iPaaS?
A platform that enables developers and practitioners to configure and implement integration
projects involving multiple endpoints and processes.
Some major features :
• Support for a variety of protocols and data formats.
• Support for complex data mapping and transformation.
• Adapter development toolkit.
• Pre-packaged Templates.
• Error handling and mitigation.
9. “ Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is an emerging, cloud – based
way for directors of integration to deliver integration platform capabilities. ”
GARTNER SAYS…
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10. LIMITATIONS OF POINT TO POINT
• Cannot leverage functional resources during delivery.
• Strong development effort and testing is needed during delivery.
• Need of a developer for any customization in maintenance phase
• Deep functional understanding is required.
• Cannot be time tested as customizations are done within the project itself.
• Cannot be productized easily in changing scenarios.
11. INTEGRATION CHALLENGES
API proliferation
Numerous APIs been
developed and upgraded
Disconnected Silos
APIs from different Apps
work differently and cannot be
directly consumed easily
Analytics and Error handling
When dealing with data,
it is important to identify
problems in data
Quality of Connection
A developer spends a lot
of time to create integration
between apps, but are
not efficiently time tested ?
12. BENEFITS OF IPAAS IN E-BUSINESS
• 360 degree view of valuable business data
• Use of best LOB solutions that fits your business need
• Invest less on overall IT.
• Allow business agility
• Supports scalability
• Minimize manual jobs
14. SOME INSIGHTS
• Applications follows some fixed set of rules called protocols.
• Protocols are fixed set of rules to define format and structure of data transferred
from one platform to another.
Some popular examples : REST, SOAP, FTP
15. DATA INTEGRATION VS APPLICATION INTEGRATION
Data Integration
• Mainly concerned with the data at rest.
• Various data sources or data sets from
warehouse is used to integrate data.
• Business processes are not marked - need
of functional understanding to integrate.
• Best for legacy systems where application
integration is challenging.
Application Integration
• Mainly concerned with real time operational
data connectivity.
• Real time application integration based on APIs
provided by applications.
• Business process is baked into the APIs, so it’s
easier to integrate.
• Modern way of doing integration.
16. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM AN iPaaS PLATFORM
• Seamless integration between business applications.
• Power of extensibility and scalability.
• Easier change resolution with auditing.
• Support of wide variety of protocols and standards
• Pre-packaged connectors to support integration requirement.
17. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM AN iPaaS PLATFORM
• Security is primal.
• Dependency management.
• Constant monitoring.
• Regular reporting.
18. APPSeCONNECT
as an Integration Platform
Here we will discuss some of the usefull features of APPSeCONNECT
which can help in digital transformation.
19. Prepackaged Template
• Time tested , Readymade integration for your business
• We offer best of breed solution to complex business
scenarios.
• Business processes are mapped based on best practices.
• Can be easily customized as per business requirements.
20. Process Mapper
• Schemas and structures are not required to be entered manually.
• Strongly typed schema with support to one to one and one to many Relationships.
• Supports high level mapping with no code.
• Support for variable field for temporary store.
• Access to library for complex mapping requirements.
• Write it yourself (full IDE for C# functions) directly on APPSeCONNECT portal.
21. Visual Workflow
• Visually orchestrate process integration.
• Loop over objects and data.
• Split or merge and do actual message - based process orchestration.
• You can take decisions and many more…
22. Constant Monitoring Through Rules
• You have automated your business processes, but are you sure all your
business data follows the defined rules ?
• No, they don't, and when it fails, you need constant eye over it.
• How do you do that ? With rules.
• Constantly monitor business process and environment.
• Invoke notifications or process actions when something fails.
23. Notifications over multiple channels
• Business needs notification
• Token based access to notifications enabled such that your
notifications are dynamic.
• Notifications can be used to implement business intelligence.
Support for Email, Tickets, Advanced notification through Webhooks etc.
24. Portable Connector
• Integration is complex and requires lots of software to be installed on the
system. What if we remove everything?
• Our connector is portable since it is just a web application.
• You can move with the connector, change / deploy immediately to your
premise without logging in to it.
• You can get notified directly when there is a problem identified.
25. Full Cloud or Hybrid
• With APPSeCONNECT, the application can be hosted on premise or
on cloud.
• Why do you need to install or maintain a server to connect your
applications ? You don’t. With a single click, your connector will be
deployed on cloud. Fine grained micro services infrastructure that
scale with your business need.
• Or, if you want your transaction data to reside on your own
network only, you can go with our hybrid solution, which does not
transfer any data outside your network.
26. Highly secure
• Is Security your concern ? I bet it is…
• With APPSeCONNECT, we provide both TLS + SSL level security.
• If it is on-premise, data will never move outside your own network; if it is
Cloud, we make sure your data is always secure and encrypted even at
rest.
• APPSeCONNECT execution server is not accessible to the outside world,
we have added IP based firewalls in place.
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28. And many more...
• Interactive / Customizable Dashboards
• Maintain your contact for integration
• Fully customizable SDKs to develop Adapters
• Protocol based generic adapters
• Free training and access to all resources
• and so on...