Are you planning to implement an integration platform or an iPaaS solution? To help you navigate the plethora of integration platforms, we’ve created comparisons with the most popular solutions. In this comparison, we’re exploring the difference between two renowned integration platforms, namely the Alumio iPaaS and Patchworks iPaaS. We compare their common attributes, platform features, pricing structures, industrial specialization, and overall user-friendliness.
Patchworks defines itself as an e-commerce iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) that helps streamline data exchange between applications and systems like e-commerce storefronts, ERPs, CRMs, and more. It provides a wide range of connectors and integration templates to build faster integrations between popular e-commerce platforms and best-of-breed, e-commerce-related software.
In contrast, the Alumio iPaaS provides a cloud-native, low-code integration platform that doesn’t just specialize in integrating e-commerce SaaS and apps, but also provides highly customizable features and developer options to connect custom endpoints for any industry. Providing its own range of connectors for popular e-commerce apps, the Alumio iPaaS also provides unique API plugins to simplify legacy ERP and e-commerce integrations. Both iPaaS solutions, Alumio and Patchworks, promote the modular integration method called Composable Commerce. Let’s explore how they compare!
The Alumio iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) is a cloud-native, low-code integration platform that helps connect multiple systems, SaaS, cloud apps, and data sources, across on-premises and cloud environments. It provides a user-friendly web interface that both developers and business users can collaborate on to create, monitor, and manage integrations and data flows, without the need for custom code. Alumio is known for its customizability and developer-friendly advanced integration features such as mappers, custom transformers, and workflow automation, making it flexible enough to adapt to virtually any use case.
The Patchworks e-commerce iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) is a no-code/low-code solution that specializes in integrating e-commerce platforms and other business-critical systems like ERP, CRM, marketing automation, and more. Catering to fast-growing e-commerce brands, it specializes in simplifying complex integrations with drag-and-drop features and automating data flows via a collection of pre-built process flows. It specializes in e-commerce replatforming, high-volume peak trading, and B2C/B2B e-commerce and it is used by retailers, managers, agencies, and technical users.
Task-based pricing model.
Starting at 999€ per month.
Alumio offers full feature access and unlimited connections, users, and workflows across all plans. Costs are incurred only on tasks initiated, starting with 1 million tasks per year with the Essential Edition. Higher capacity plans provide increased storage space and task capabilities, dedicated support functionalities, and data retention options.
Elastic pricing model
Price not found.
While Patchworks hasn’t made its pricing model publicly available, it hints that its pricing model is elastic and enables users to scale their usage as they grow. Their business model appears to be catering to fast-growing SMBs with a focus on e-commerce.
• Low-code/no-code integrations
• Cloud-native
• Click-and-configure integrations
• Workflow automation
• Advanced data mappers and transformers
• Automated monitoring & logging
• No-code/low-code integrations
• Cloud-based
• Drag & Drop/ Click & Configure
• Visual workflow builder
• Monitoring
• Mappers
• Custom scripting
• Pre-built connectors
• Application integrations
• API integration
• Data integration
• Data management
• Web services
• Multiple data sources
• ETL
• B2B & EDI integration
• Pre-built connectors
• Pre-built process flows
• Data management
• Web services
• Multiple data sources
• API integration
• Data integration
• B2B & EDI integration
Integration Management
Reusable API integrations
Webhooks
Reporting & Analytics
Workflow Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Connector builder
Visual canvas for process flows
Script builder
Version control & deployment
Connector marketplace
Industry specialization:
E-commerce
B2B commerce
Manufacturing
Transportation & travel
Higher Education Institutes
Healthcare
Customer specialization:
Individuals
Small businesses
Mid-size businesses
Large enterprises
Agencies & system integrators
Industry specialization:
E-commerce
Retail
Accounting & ERP
Marketing & CRM
In-Store
Warehouse & Logistics
Customer specialization:
Individuals
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Agencies & system integrators
• Low-code and no-code features
• Cloud-native microservices-based technology
• Application integration
• Hybrid cloud integration
• Workflow automation
• Rich library of SaaS connectors
• B2B & EDI Integrations
• API Management
• Developer-friendly customizability
• Reusable integrations
• Multiple onboarding options
• Full feature-access for all plans
• All customer support options
• Alumio Academy
• Low-code and no-code features
• E-commerce specializations
• Workflow templates
• Elastic pricing model
• AI features
• App store
• Patchworks BI
• Alignment with MACH alliance
The Alumio iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) is a cloud-native, low-code integration solution that helps all kinds of businesses integrate multiple systems, SaaS, cloud apps, and data sources without the hassles of custom code. Patchworks is an iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) that specializes in e-commerce integrations and business-critical systems like ERP, CRM, Marketing automation, and more.
Patchworks offers a wide range of connectors and integration templates to build faster integrations between popular e-commerce platforms and best-of-breed, e-commerce-related software. In contrast, the Alumio iPaaS doesn’t just specialize in integrating e-commerce SaaS and cloud apps, but also provides highly customizable features and developer options to connect custom endpoints for any industry. For instance, apart from providing its own range of connectors for popular e-commerce apps, the Alumio iPaaS also provides unique API plugins to simplify legacy ERP and e-commerce integrations.
Patchworks is a MACH (Microservices API-First Cloud-native Headless) Alliance partner. Apart from being proponents of MACH architecture, both iPaaS solutions, Alumio and Patchworks, promote the modular integration method called Composable Commerce.
The Alumio iPaaS provides a task-based pricing model with varying capacities, offering full feature access and unlimited connections to all users. Higher capacity plans provide increased storage spaces, enlarged task capabilities, dedicated support functionalities, and data retention options. Extensive data transformation and enrichment features, reusable connections, and configurable alerting and logging are available to all Alumio users without limitations.
While Patchworks hasn’t made its pricing model publicly available, it hints that its pricing model is elastic and enables users to scale their usage as they grow. Their business model appears to be catering to fast-growing SMBs with a focus on e-commerce.
Integration solutions usually focus on providing either data integration or application automation functionalities. The Alumio iPaaS provides both cloud application integration and data integration capabilities, across on-premises and cloud environments. Also, as a cloud-native platform engineered, Alumio leverages the power of clustered microservices technology, enabling exceptional performance, flexibility, and scalability for all kinds of integrations.
As a primarily low-code integration solution, the Alumio integration platform also provides no-code features that makes it easy for both developers and business users to collaboratively create, monitor, and manage integrations with a clear visual overview of all integrations and data flows. However, the platform also offers an extensive repertoire of developer-friendly, data-enriching features, workflow automation options, and diverse customization abilities. Providing extensive monitoring iand logging features, it automates error detection and simplifies troubleshooting. This also empowers users to reuse API integrations for future integration projects.
For more information on how the Alumio iPaaS can benefit your specific use case, please contact us or request a demo.
Usually, integration projects can take multiple weeks or months to fully deploy. With the Alumio iPaaS integration projects can be finished within 2-4 weeks, depending on the complexity of the specific project. This means the Alumio integration platform enables 75% quicker integration deployment time.
For more information on how the Alumio iPaaS can benefit your specific use case, please contact us or request a demo.
The Alumio iPaaS is a cloud-native, low-code integration platform. It helps businesses create, monitor, and manage integrations between multiple SaaS, systems, apps, or data sources, from one user-friendly web interface, without the need for custom code. It enables real-data exchange, provides a holistic visual overview of all integrated data flows, and provides simple click-and-configure options to build and modify integrations.
Despite having both low-code and no-code features, Alumio defines itself as a low-code integration solution. Alumio makes it easy for developers and non-developers to collaborate on managing integration with no-code features. However, the platform also provides the developer-friendly features and flexibility needed to create advanced, highly customizable integrations. While enabling faster integrations with popular systems via pre-built connectors, Alumio also provides advanced mappers and transformers to flexibly transform data and customize integrations. This high degree of adaptability is designed to help modern digital businesses prepare for unpredictable future integration needs.
For more information on how the Alumio iPaaS can benefit your specific use case, please contact us or request a demo.
The Alumio iPaaS provides high-end reliable performance, guarantees great uptime, consists of extensive data security measures, and diverse customization abilities. It also provides reactivation procedures and data caching to ensure business continuity.
For more information on how the Alumio iPaaS can benefit your specific use case, please contact us or request a demo.