When making the decision to bring in new enterprise-wide integration tooling, selecting best-fit technology is key to ensuring developers take up the tool and campus is able to realize the return on your investment. In a number of conversations during our research, EAB has encountered institutions who licensed expensive iPaaS solutions or campus-wide integration suites only to discover their developers didn’t like them, or their users wouldn’t fund the extra cost of connectors (with no funding left in IT to foot the bill).
To help you make sense of the iPaaS landscape, the IT Forum pulled together some key facts and findings about integration vendors encountered during our 2017 research into enterprise integration. While not recommendations or endorsements, these profiles provide an overview of the vendors and their products, as well as intelligence regarding their users within higher education.
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Boomi was an iPaaS pioneer acquired by Dell in 2010, and the platform now supports over 5,500 large and midsize organizations worldwide. The Boomi suite offers various cloud-based tools in different editions to manage the full integration lifecycle and has consistently featured as a leader in Gartner’s iPaaS Magic Quadrant.
Ellucian’s Ethos Platform launched in 2016 as the vendor’s cloud-enabled, mobile-first, integrated software portfolio for higher education. The Platform includes workflow and integration management as well as a patent-pending data model, which together orchestrate real-time data movement and analytics for client institutions.
The iData Hub product offers systems integration as a service, using their enterprise service bus platform to build abstraction between data sources and target systems with standard web services and batch schedules. Their Cookbook product can be licensed at a higher fee to include packaged integrations on top of data dictionary and audit tools.
Informatica is a recognized and successful leader in integration technologies, with over 7,000 clients worldwide. Informatica PowerCenter is an advanced ETL and data integration tool, while Informatica Cloud provides iPaaS capabilities – and both can be used in conjunction with Informatica’s other data tools.
Jitterbit’s Harmony platform was released in 2014. Harmony provides full multitenant support for integration across cloud, inter-enterprise and on-premises environments as well as API development and management capabilities. It is primarily used by smaller and midsize organizations, or as a project-level tool, and has 1,000+ clients worldwide.
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform is a leading solution for API-led connectivity that creates an application network of apps, data, and devices, both on-premises and in the cloud for 1,000+ enterprises. This hybrid integration platform includes iPaaS, ESB, and a unified solution for API management, design and publishing.
N2N’s flagship product, Illuminate, functions as an enterprise cloud integration gateway. Customers can create, manage, and monetize APIs, as well as build bridges between two APIs securely within N2N’s gateway without need for programming or additional supporting infrastructure.
Oracle’s iPaaS offerings are twofold: Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) is targeted towards ad-hoc integrators, while Oracle SOA Cloud Service targets specialized integrators with a broad array of services. Both suites offer a broad range of other integration and data management offerings (including API management, file transfer, and IoT integration services) to create robust capabilities.
SnapLogic’s Enterprise Integration Cloud is a simple but powerful iPaaS solution recognized by Gartner as an industry-leader in the iPaaS marketplace. The drag-and-drop user interface provides a code-free experience for developers and promotes integration software usage among less technical users.
Talend’s suite of data and cloud integration products includes solutions for data integration and quality management, real-time big data analysis, cloud integration, application integration, and master data management. Talend is known for their commitment to open source development and as a vendor primarily lauded for their big data integration and data quality solutions.
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