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iPaaS FAQ

• What is iPaaS?

  iPaaS, which stands for Integration Platform as a Service, is a cloud-based platform that allows your organization to build integrations between applications, processes, and data, whether in the cloud or on-premise.

  iPaaS lets you integrate data in a consistent way from multiple sources and applications. It also makes it easier to automate processes, develop and deploy data flows between applications, and connect workflows.

• What is enterprise automation?

  An enterprise automation platform is a cloud-based solution that lets you integrate your systems and run workflow automations that work across your applications, data, and employees.

  You don’t need to know how to code to use enterprise automation software, you just need to understand the ins and outs of your business processes. Also, instead of hard coding connectors, you can integrate apps and databases by leveraging the enterprise automation platform’s pre-built connectors; where once the integrations are built, the platform lets you build and modify automations in a low-code/no-code interface utilizing features like drag and drop.

• How does Workato pricing work?

  With Workato, you pay for what you use. Start with a Workato workspace, a collaboration space that allows multiple users to build, share, test and run recipes.

  Your workspace comes with everything you need to integrate applications and automate your workflows, including unlimited connections and users.

  Once your workspace is set up, you can purchase recipes either individually or in packs of 10, 25, 50, and 100.

• What is an embedded iPaaS?

  An embedded iPaaS is an iPaaS that can be added directly to your product. With an embedded iPaaS you can cut down your integration backlog. Moreover, it lets your developers focus on improving your product’s core features instead of building and maintaining integrations.

• iPaaS vs. ETL

  • An iPaaS lets you move data across systems in real time, while an ETL tool can only do so in batches.
  • ETL tools are often geared towards on-premise systems, while an iPaaS can effectively handle cloud, on-premise, or hybrid systems.
  • iPaaS can integrate your systems and your data, while an ETL tool can only integrate the latter.

• iPaaS vs. ESB

  • ESB tools are ideal for integrating legacy applications, while the lightweight architecture of an iPaaS allows for hybrid integrations that can connect on-prem, legacy, and cloud applications.
  • iPaaS has the ability to transfer data in real time through APIs, which an ESB can’t do.
  • If it’s essential for data to stay on-premise for security reasons, an ESB provides top-tier protection. iPaaS provides better management of data quality and data profiling in the cloud.

• RPA vs. iPaaS

  • iPaaS can be more stable than RPA software, as it isn’t affected by changes to an application’s UI, which could cause an RPA bot(s) to break.
  • iPaaS offers powerful governance and security controls so that you can implement integrations at scale without compromising sensitive, business-critical information; RPA, meanwhile, requires building more bots in order to scale, making governance and security policies difficult to enforce.
  • iPaaS allows you to automate a wide variety of tasks, while RPA focuses on moving and syncing data between systems.
  • RPA software, unlike an iPaaS, can interact with systems that don’t offer an API (e.g. legacy database), allowing RPA to extract more value from these systems.

• iPaaS vs. EDI

  • EDI, or electronic data exchange, is a way to exchange business information electronically using a standard format. EDI replaces business processes that would typically happen using mail, fax, and e-mail.
  • EDI data is stored before it’s transferred so it can still take a few hours to transfer data. iPaaS has the ability to transfer data in real time through APIs.
  • iPaaS is a better integration option for cloud-based applications, while EDI is typically used to connect on-premise applications.