Why iPaaS platforms are costing companies

Why iPaaS platforms are costing companies 

Imagine a world where data and information flows across your organisation, delivered to the right decision-makers at the right moment so your company can respond to market threats and opportunities in real-time.  This is only possible by having a connected business – and this is where traditional iPaaS platforms fall short.

The original purpose of the iPaaS platform, first introduced in the early 2000s, was to connect business applications across on-premise and cloud environments. At the time, these mostly delivered point-to-point integrations involving custom code to connect two apps together.

In the early 2010s, a new breed of integration platforms emerged to help companies move from point-to-point integration to hub-and-spoke integration, which doesn’t require a direct connection between business applications or systems. Instead, each system that wants to share data across the enterprise has one connection point with a single, central “hub”.  However, to create a single unified view of data required a separate team, project and solution further creating new silos of locked-away data and lacking the economies of scale of reusing key data assets. 

Great progress has been made technologically over the years but the integration platforms used by 95% of companies are costing executives in lost revenue and hugely burdensome infrastructure and pay-per-use consumption costs. The reason is these traditional iPaaS platforms weren’t developed for today’s era of data and cloud-native technology adoption.  It’s why we developed the modern, all-in-one Hyper-Integration Platform.

Value of Hyper-Integration Platforms

Hyper-Integration Platforms such as Xfuze, pioneered by Xiatech, integrate systems, unify data into single views and provide advanced analytics and insights all through a single cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) platform.

For the first time, data and information automatically flow across organisations in near real-time.  This is also helping to unlock data silos and retaining key data assets in one consolidated location, whilst turbo-charging legacy systems and enabling them to gracefully communicate with more modern digital technologies.  This is possible because Xfuze uniquely fuses together real-time system integration, data management, analytics and process automation capabilities so companies are connected at all levels, from a composable event-based architecture through to the user experience.

The benefits of a Hyper-Integration Platform are many, including:

• Reduce technology costs by having system integration, data management, analytics and process automation capabilities unified in one platform 
• Increase the return on legacy technology investments by extending the life and use of existing systems and tools 
• Improve business efficiencies by automating manual processes 
• Shorten time to value by accessing and sharing a single view of data and insights that was previously siloed
• Highly optimised costs especially with one-time unlimited licensing (not consumption based) – at a fraction of traditional iPaaS 

Hyper-Integration Platforms are optimised for the cloud and are the future of business integration, creating and powering connected companies like never before.

The case for Hyper-Integration Platforms 

What’s really exciting is witnessing the business value technology teams are creating by moving from traditional iPaaS platforms to Hyper-Integration Platforms.

Unlike traditional integration platforms where you need to buy, build, deploy and support a number of technologies such as system integration, data quality, data management, data governance, business intelligence, advanced analytics and robotic process automation across multiple vendors and infrastructures, a Hyper-Integration Platform delivers all of these capabilities you need in one unified solution – and they are ready to be used with pre-built end to end data pipelines, from source system through to data analytics and visualisations. 

The value of Xfuze is powerful and comprehensive:

• Reduce data management costs by 40%
• Lower technology cost of ownership by 60%
• Accelerate system integration time by 3x
• Extend the life of legacy systems by 5+ years 

But the business value isn’t just savings; it’s about being able to move faster at pace, empowering individuals and teams to do more, and smarter.

The iPaaS platform of yesterday with its inability to provide all three capabilities of integrating systems, creating a single view of data AND providing advanced insights and analytics, is inhibiting companies from transforming into future-proof connected businesses, and this is costly in lost sales, low profit margin, poor customer experience and burned out employees.  

So, if you’re spending too much money managing legacy systems, or your team is struggling to keep up with the demand of the business, and the pace of the market, it’s time to consider modernising your integration capabilities with a Hyper-Integration Platform.  

Contact me to schedule a call to discover how our Xfuze platform can enable you to grow and optimise your business without the cost and risk of relying on outdated integration technologies and techniques.