The Cost Optimization Benefits of an iPaaS

For businesses that identify departments or processes with high operational costs, the Alumio iPaaS offers them the flexibility to rapidly integrate any software solution. These integrations help automate repetitive manual processes, reduce the operational risks of human error, and enable businesses to optimize how they use skilled employees to develop newer solutions.

When it comes to developing and managing integrations themselves, the Alumio iPaaS provides key operational advantages that help businesses significantly lower TCO (Total Cost of Operations):

Where once only coding experts could develop and monitor integrations, the Alumio iPaaS enables junior developers, project managers, data experts, and even business users with data management skills to create and govern integrations. This helps to significantly reduce operational costs in regard to hiring, outsourcing, and third-party dependency.

More importantly, as a low-code solution, the Alumio iPaaS doesn’t just free Senior Developers to focus on building solutions that still require coding expertise. Rather, it provides advanced integration tools and flexible features that these developers can use to build complex custom integrations, better suited to tackle the specific needs of your business.

Eliminating the need to create custom code integrations and centralizing all data and software connections on one platform, the Alumio iPaaS makes it significantly easier to detect and resolve integration errors from one interface.

To add to this, the platform’s automated Monitoring and Logging features help keep track of every process, data transfer, request, and change within each integration. It also helps instantly detect any integration errors or API conflicts, which users can swiftly troubleshoot and resolve via an intuitive dashboard. This helps save significant time and labor costs.

When governing custom code integrations, the data logic that connects the integrated software solutions is incomprehensible to project managers and business owners, who lack coding expertise. This is called a ‘black box problem’ because all the processes and data of the integration cannot be fully seen or comprehended by everyone involved in the project. It results in hidden and unpredictable costs.

In such a black box scenario, integration specialists or developers may request unrealistic budgets for integration fixes and improvements. Or, they may find themselves hard-pressed to present visual evidence for genuine budget requirements. At the same time, business owners aren’t assured enough to allocate appropriate budgets or IT resources to mitigate integration errors in a timely fashion. This makes it difficult to plan fixes, improve current integrations, or add new APIs and software connections.

On the other hand, the Alumio iPaaS is designed to eliminate these black box problems. It makes all integrations and data flows visible on one user-friendly interface, which developers, project managers, and business owners can understand and collaborate on. By presenting a clear overview of built logic versus agreed-upon logic, the platform helps identify any extra data logic that needs to be created or improved. But, most importantly, the Alumio iPaaS presents predictable pricing models for building these fixes and improvements, or for upscaling integrations.

In this regard, the Alumio iPaaS makes it easier for businesses to effectively plan and calculate their ROI on integrations and digital growth, by helping them:  

One of the biggest business advantages of using the Alumio iPaaS is that it helps businesses skip the significant costs, time, and risks involved in developing and managing internal integration solutions.

Instead of investing expensive resources and many months to prepare a solution for creating integrations, the Alumio iPaaS enables businesses to start integrating software within weeks. As a result, businesses can already test and freely tweak their integrations to better suit business needs.

More importantly, this helps businesses avoid the hidden costs of maintaining, updating, and troubleshooting their own integration solution. It also prevents the unpredictable costs and hours their IT team or integration partner spends on all these processes, which often devours a business' ROI.

Apart from saving businesses the costs and hassles of developing and maintaining an internal integration solution, the Alumio iPaaS is constantly improved to meet evolving industry standards, in terms of performance and security. By providing regular platform and software updates, the highest levels of data security, scalable infrastructure, and dedicated cloud space, the Alumio iPaaS saves businesses from investing resources in constantly improving or expanding such features.

To add to this, the Alumio iPaaS also helps businesses stay compliant with key privacy legislations like GDPR, SOC2, CCPA, FERPA, HIPAA, and more. To adhere to these privacy regulations, businesses must be able to prove how they track and manage customer data. By centralizing all integrations on one platform, the Alumio iPaaS provides businesses with complete data control and access across all connected systems.

Providing a centralized view of all integrations and data, the Alumio iPaaS helps businesses identify where they are losing money and what touchpoints need to be improved. This includes tracking overall customer engagement and identifying process inefficiencies. These insights can be used to optimize the targeting of marketing activities, ad spends, and budgets for business improvements.