iPaaS vs. ETL
More than 2.5 quintillion bytes are created every day. Companies are currently under enormous pressure to find the best and fastest path to efficient management, and cloud integration to gain business intelligence. Without a way to monitor, manage, and process this enormous amount of data, it's almost impossible to use and find value from this information. Enter data management tools.
Only there's one problem. The sheer amount of different data management and integration solutions make it difficult to decide which application and platforms are suited for your business. iPaaS integration solution is built with two goals in mind: providing no-code integration solutions and suitable for adjustable and real-time SaaS applications. This remains important for cloud-based services because of ease of use and the ability to change software with compromise. Yet, Enterprise Service Bus (ETL) integrate complex IT systems and architecture. It holds together on-premise and legacy systems, but it's hard to change and manage your data.
iPaaS vs. ETL: four key differences
Modern companies rely on iPaaS and/or ETL integration solutions to control and manage their data. Four things to keep in mind when it comes to knowing the differences between an ETL and an iPaaS integration solution: Application Integration, Scalability, Multi-Tenancy, and Data Governance.
Application Integration
ETLs are recognized for their strength to handle different complex tasks within on-premises or legacy systems. But you can count on ETLs to control and manage various applications and data. They lack the means and flexibility to support cloud integration solutions without compromise. Alumio iPaaS moves between your source and target applications using plug-ins. Your applications can both take in and push data out to flow from the source endpoints to the target endpoint.
ETL scalability vs iPaaS scalability
Digital Commerce is moving fast, and business needs to change to keep up with cloud-based applications. Data management solutions need to be adaptable and flexible to keep up with modern SaaS applications vast demand for data. When it comes to scalability, flexibility, an ETL and iPaaS vary in their capability to provide scalable solutions. An Extraction, Transformation, and Load solutions can be counted on for vertical scaling within an existing architecture, which means that an ETL can expand existing compute resources such as power, capacity, or speed. iPaaS is better suited for horizontal scaling, which usually means adding new applications or changing applications within the existing environment.
iPaaS Multi-Tenant environments
Multi-tenancy is the capacity for multiple groups of users to access data stored on a server simultaneously. Think of stock, sale, and user data used across different departments such as operations and sales. Any department can access and interact with the same data easily accessible from anywhere in a multi-tenant environment.
iPaaS solutions have a clear advantage when it comes to hosting multi-tenant environments. As a cloud solution, iPaaS open the door to real-time access to data stored in all applications and locations. ETL solutions are less flexible at handling this level of complexity.
Data Governance
iPaaS ability to secure and govern data is another crucial difference between ETL and iPaaS. Alumio iPaaS is equipped with a more effective governance capability than Extraction, Transformation, and Load solutions, including mechanisms and a dashboard to measure data quality, data profiling, and metadata management. Alumio iPaaS provides all of those and is GDPR Compliant.
ETL solutions often include data governance features; however, compared to iPaaS integration solution capabilities, ETLs lack features, and more robust data governance capabilities are found in iPaaS solutions. This is because iPaaS solutions were designed to integrate data from various systems while accounting for schema and other data modeling considerations. As a result, Alumio iPaaS data governance features are more comprehensive than those of ETL.
"Alumio iPaaS an integration platform ready for future growth"
iPaaS is better suited for horizontal scaling, which usually means the addition of new applications or components to the existing environment. Another key element of an iPaaS environment is interchangeability and scalability of integrations.
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Connect legacy software Possibility to connect to Oracle, IBM, REST, and SOAP.
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Junior developers can create the majority of the integrations using visual tooling and do all of the support to resolve problems.
How can Alumio iPaaS help your business?
Without Alumio iPaaS
Don't create a tangled IT landscape
With Alumio iPaaS
Normalized Entitity of data
With an extensive set of web services support, Alumio integrates with thousands of systems. It's capabilities offers out-of-the-box integration, mapping and transformation tools together with a powerful software development kit (SDK). Built, maintain and grow your IT landscape without the cost of an Enterprise Service Bus.
Whether it's connecting via REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, Databases, FTP and so on, Alumio platform gives you the services you need to connect your systems.
Imagine a single tenant, cost friendly cloud solution from which you can quickly start integrating systems, including the ability to let you scale horizontally and roll out your integrations on a global scale. Alumio offers these capabilities, eliminating any potential pitfalls in your ambitions to grow.
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A summary of reasons and benefits
Future-proofing scalable infrastructure and software interchangeability.
Fast integration reduce "time-to-market" and connect new software and data sources easily.
High performance service 360° monitoring and no custom tailored code.
Security and compliance integrations and data exchange in accordance with privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR)
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