In today’s fast-paced business landscape, the need for seamless communication and data flow between various systems within an organization has become paramount. Gone are the days of siloed information and disjointed processes that hinder productivity and innovation. The solution? Business system integrations.
This is part of an occasional blog series authored by Digibee Business Development leader Jean Minka, sharing his perspectives on the changing enterprise technology landscape – reflected from his discussions with Digibee customers, prospects and partners.
In the world of integration, companies face a common dilemma. Choose a powerful but complex and costly enterprise iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) with a slow payoff, or opt for an automation vendor that promises quick results but struggles under the weight of complexity. This has been the landscape: a choice between two imperfect options.
Many legacy iPaaS users, like you, face common obstacles. These challenges range from end of support with their current provider, to the necessity of modernizing their architecture to support new technologies, to justifying increasing update and support costs. Additionally, while their overwhelmed team struggles to efficiently manage their integrations, their IT backlogs pile up.
Look, we get it, breakups are never easy. But how often in hindsight do we know we not only did the right thing, but actually, we should’ve done it sooner? That’s how Digibee customers feel once they finally decide to dump their Legacy iPaaS for Digibee’s serverless, modern platform.
This is part of an occasional blog series authored by Digibee Business Development leader Jean Minka, sharing his perspectives on the changing enterprise technology landscape – reflected from his discussions with Digibee customers, prospects and partners.
As a business and technology leader, some of the most critical technology decisions you face center on whether to broadly adopt an integrated suite from a single vendor or assemble a “best-of-breed” stack of specialized tools. The associated set of decisions is the underpinning of your technology strategy, and the decisions you make will profoundly impact the flexibility, innovation and costs of your tech stack as you grow, scale and evolve your organization.
We’ve come to recognize the change in facial expression.
Here at Digibee, we participate in a lot of in person technology events. The expression change I mentioned above typically follows a pattern. First, we engage an event attendee in conversation, tell them about Digibee’s serverless iPaaS, our users’ ability to enable seamless scale up and scale down, our event-driven capabilities, and we do a quick live demo of our iPaaS interface. We can literally see the interest growing as we talk. Then the change happens, “Oh wait, we already use XYZ for integration.”
Every Digibee customer journey starts with an impetus – a chronic pain point that drives the company to change how it integrates. Often these scenarios have measurable impacts to the business, impeding growth, profitability, the health, and ultimately, the success of the organization.
Let me start this blog post by stating that some of our most pleased customers here at Digibee are former users of legacy iPaaS platforms. You may have seen the news of our feature release using AI to seamlessly migrate integrations from other platforms to Digibee. Or some of our customer stories of already using iPaaS technology, turning to Digibee to overcome major integration challenges. Plenty of proof that Digibee can help, even if you already run an iPaaS.
Johnson Brothers (JB), the 4th largest wholesaler and 3rd largest wine distributor in the US, manages over 27,000 unique alcohol products, each subject to different regulations, pricing structures, and distribution rules. JB partnered with Digibee and leveraged our cutting-edge technology to successfully tackle their integration challenges.
In the ever-evolving landscape of information technology, trends come and go. From the Y2K frenzy to the buzzword bonanza of big data, cloud computing and microservices, tech vendors often find themselves riding the same bandwagon, whether the solutions truly warrant the enthusiasm or not. Today, the wave we’re all surfing is Artificial Intelligence (AI). It seems like everyone has an AI marketing message, but how many are releasing features that genuinely deliver real value?