Top Five Benefits of Embedded Integrations

If your team is looking to secure product-led growth, investing in a modern embedded iPaaS should be top of mind.

An embedded Integration Platform as a Service (embedded iPaaS) is a cloud-based solution that allows products to easily connect and integrate with other applications or services. An embedded iPaaS is designed to be embedded directly into another software application or platform – offering out-of-the-box connectivity and integration capabilities to end-users, and enhancing functionality and value.

A modern embedded iPaaS can:

• Relieve your developers from building and maintaining integrations to your product and instead allow them to focus on building your product’s core features.
• Let you take integrations to market quickly, thereby helping you win new business and retain clients at a higher rate.
• Turn your product into a hub for workflow automations, which fundamentally transforms the value it provides

Why leverage embedded integrations with your product?

Use cases for embedded integrations encompass a variety of applications that enhance product functionality, customer experience, and operational efficiency. 

Here we break down the top 5 benefits of an embedded iPaaS:

1. Enhancing Product Stickiness and Customer Retention: Embedded integrations can make a product more integral to a customer’s daily operations by connecting it with other essential tools and services. This integration capability can lead to increased product stickiness, higher customer retention rates, and potentially, an increase in revenue. For instance, by offering seamless integrations with popular SaaS apps and databases, a product can become more indispensable to its users.
2. Facilitating Custom Automation and Workflow Creation: With embedded integrations, customers can build custom automations and workflows that connect different applications and services. This capability allows for the automation of repetitive tasks, streamlining of operations, and enhancement of productivity. A low-code UI within an embedded integration platform can empower non-technical users to create and manage these automations efficiently.
3. Offering a Tailored Customer Experience: Embedded integrations can provide flexibility in how integrations and automations are configured and deployed for customers. This flexibility enables the creation of in-line experiences where customers can benefit from automations without needing to manage the setup and maintenance, thereby improving the overall customer experience.
4. Improving Data Accessibility and Decision Making: By connecting a product with various data sources and applications through embedded integrations, businesses can facilitate better data accessibility. This connectivity allows for the aggregation and analysis of data from multiple sources, leading to more informed decision-making and strategic insights.
5. Supporting Compliance and Security Requirements: In industries where compliance and data security are paramount, embedded integrations can offer solutions that meet rigorous standards. For cybersecurity products, for example, an embedded integration platform that is compliant with GDPR, has passed SOC-2 Type II security audits, and supports SIEM integration can be crucial.

These use cases highlight the versatility and value of embedded integrations in enhancing product offerings, improving customer experiences, and meeting specific industry needs.

Powering embedded integrations with Workato

Workato offers an Embedded Platform that accelerates product innovation and adoption by offering integrations at the speed and depth your customers demand.

With Workato, you can: 

• Take embedded integrations to market 3x faster with access to 1000+ pre-built connectors to SaaS applications and databases and hundreds of thousands of automation templates—which we refer to as “recipes.”
• Enable less technical resources to implement integrations and automations in minutes via our low-code UI – freeing up engineering resources to focus on you core product.
• Seamlessly embed our Enterprise Automation Platform directly into your product with the configuration options that meet your needs.
• Use a centralized admin dashboard to easily track usage and manage permissions.
• Drive new revenue and differentiation by productizing your integrations and automations.
• Leverage our patented Workbot to build chatbots that can be incorporated into your product’s workflow automations—or that simply allow clients to access data and actions from your product without leaving their business comms platform.

To learn more about how Workato’s Embedded Platform can help drive efficient, product-led growth you can schedule a demo with one of our integration experts.