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The need to integrate multiple applications and services has become more urgent now than ever. As a result, many organizations have turned to APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) as a way to enable seamless communication between different systems. However, this approach, when applied to internal use cases, can lead to higher costs and limited flexibility.
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations face the constant challenge of integrating diverse applications and data systems. Traditional integration approaches often struggle with scalability, flexibility, and efficiency.
Event-driven architecture (EDA) offers a compelling alternative, promising more responsive and adaptable integration strategies. This blog post delves into how Digibee harnesses the power of EDA to simplify and enhance complex integrations.
>> Book a personalized demo with our team of experts and see how Digibee’s iPaaS will bring efficiency to your business.
Ah, APIs. They are the invisible threads weaving together the fabric of our tech lives. Yet, building them consumes a third of our coding time and, according to this report from Postman, 61% of the time, they’re only used for internal purposes. Can we afford the time, talent, and effort required to build monolithic APIs?
The short answer is often, no.
In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, the true measure of a product’s success lies in the experiences of its users. Digibee, a leader in the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) category, has earned the highest ratings from its customers over the past 2 years, with reviews highlighting its ease of use, efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
Thanks to all the customers who have taken the time to share their honest viewpoints of their experience since fall 2023, Digibee is leading the iPaaS category for mid-market and enterprise markets, consistently through winter 2024 and spring 2024. Let’s delve into some of the feedback making Digibee the top choice for businesses worldwide.
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Across diverse industries and use cases, Digibee users on G2 have shared their stories of streamlined integrations, accelerated projects, and enhanced team productivity. With feedback emphasizing the platform’s flexibility, cost transparency, and scalability, these reviews reveal how Digibee is not only solving complex integration challenges but also empowering teams to achieve more with less effort. Let’s take a look at what our customers value most about Digibee.
One of the design principles of Digibee’s platform has been to simplify complex API-driven architectures to streamline development workflows, cut operational costs, and accelerate deployment. A key enabler for this design principle is transforming code libraries into reusable “Capsules” that can be used and reused as needed across workflows, significantly reducing API lifecycle management.
One customer commented on their experience with API management and development and the guidance provided by our support team, “easy-to-build and deploy APIs. Digibee works well with various file types and applications. The support team is very good and has a lot of training material available.” [G2, Verified Customer Review]
Customers frequently praise our Capsules, and how they free up their teams to focus on strategy and innovation: “iPaaS with connectors for different platforms and technologies, friendly interface and less code. The possibility of creating integrations in a fast and structured way allowed us to think about ‘what should be done’ instead of ‘how to do it’.” [Washington S, G2, Verified Customer Review]
Customers consistently highlight the platform’s ease of use, quick learning curve for development teams, our excellent education program and resources, modern UX, and the efficiency it brings to their integration processes resulting in a reduced time to market.
“The tool itself is so easy to use once you get the hang of it. When you live in a platform every day for months at a time, you don’t want to feel like you’re stuck in an old legacy platform. Digibee feels fresh and modern. Big congrats to the team that built it for considering the user experience as much as the functionality.”
G2, Verified Customer Review
“The integration capacity provided by the platform is impressive and has really facilitated the connection between our various applications, services and systems within the company…Easily integrates our systems, and has a very good [short] learning curve with our developers, taking much less time to train them and thus generating value quickly.” [Lucas S., G2, Verified Customer Review]
Another customer appropriately summarized the reason they are doubling down on their commitment. “Digibee has powerful features to integrate various systems and technologies. This is very useful because its customers can quickly develop their integration solutions. Our development team doesn’t have to worry about the technological aspects, its focus is only on the business problem that will be solved because the Digibee Platform provides all the technical components that we need.” [Gabriel V., G2, Verified Customer Review]
Digibee’s advanced tools and infrastructure are designed to maximize efficiency and minimize routine tasks. The platform’s AI-enhanced capabilities streamline workflow creation, making it a favorite among users who need to accelerate project delivery.
One of our users commented on the ease of development through connectors for a team with limited resources, “a small team can quickly implement new integrations and improvements. The platform offers a wide variety of connectors that meet all the needs of integration projects, avoiding the need for custom code.” [Vitor M., G2, Verified Customer Review]
Another customer commented that what they liked best about Digibee’s product was the agility in development, the quick turnaround for implementation, and the fast processing time for integrations, reducing deployment time by a staggering 90%, “we were able to reduce in terms of processing one of the largest integrations more than 90% of the time.” [Alexandre J., G2, Verified Customer Review]
Customers value Digibee’s Zero-Operations capability, which allows them to manage workflows effortlessly, boosting reliability and scalability. This feature enables businesses to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure management. As this customer said, “Digibee offers a scalable and maintainable integration solution for projects…(I like best the) architecture development with integrated UI and methods to perform tests quickly. User management panel and pipeline performance visualization interface” [Murilo N., G2, Verified Customer Review]
“One of the strengths of Digibee is its ability to integrate a wide range of applications and systems, enabling companies to centralize and manage their data more efficiently. Additionally, the platform provides automation features that can result in time savings and reduced operational errors…Overall, Digibee provides a solution that optimizes workflows and empowers organizations to be more agile and data-driven.”
G2, Verified Customer Review
One customer mentioned, “before using Digibee, I had problems monitoring and controlling all my APIs, their environments, and their performance. Now I have complete control over all aspects of my integration pipelines with alerts and dashboards to view the entire health of my environment, so I spend less time and resources doing this.” [G2, Verified Customer Review]
The flexibility of the platform has also been a standout for many customers to ensure agile and efficient integrations. This customer had an extremely aggressive timeline for their integration project and was able to meet deadlines with our scalable solution. The customer noted, “the platform deserves to be highlighted for its flexibility, meeting the many different integration needs…the ‘low code’ approach, which not only simplifies but also greatly speeds up the development process. Furthermore, the partnership between Digibee professionals is exceptional, offering agile and efficient support to ensure continued success.” [Denis G., G2, Verified Customer Review]
Digibee’s pricing model is another area customers have highlighted. By ensuring they only pay for the resources they actually use, Digibee offers a cost-effective solution that aligns with their business needs. “Businesses benefit from cost savings and improved scalability, as Digibee allows easy integration of new applications and systems. Overall, Digibee provides a solution that optimizes workflows and empowers organizations to be more agile and data-driven.” [Renato C., G2 Verified Customer Review]
“Digibee is ready to handle any kind of integration, from the simplest ones using text files to the most complex ones mixing different Web APIs, databases, legacy systems, etc. Significant cost savings and increased development agility compared to other enterprise integration tools.”
Carlos Renato S.., G2 Verified Customer Review
Cost effectiveness also comes through allowing the engineers to focus on the essentials of the business logic vs. boilerplate. Customers talked about Digibee enabling them to concentrate on their core logic to solve business problems, while securely and confidently leveraging the comprehensive support provided by the platform’s tools.
“Integrations are faster to develop in Digibee. The support is far superior. Digibee is our main integration tool, it reduces our development time and builds better faster integrations. We are using it to build reusable microservices and applications to move and transform data.” [Alec I., G2 Verified Customer Review]
The relationship between Digibee and its customers goes beyond just providing a service. Users appreciate the consistent support and dedication from the Digibee team, which adds immense value to their overall experience.
“The cooperation of Digibee employees has been vital in the construction of our integration pipeline projects, their overall skills and domain that the team has of the platform is of very important in solving our business needs.”
Matheus R., G2, Verified Customer Review
“Digibee provides excellent support service. The main positive point of Digibee is undoubtedly the quality and speed of support. Whenever necessary, we can call an attendant in the chat and clarify any doubts.” [Pedro C., G2, Verified Customer Review]
The highest ratings and glowing reviews from our customers are the ultimate testament to Digibee’s effectiveness and reliability. With features designed to simplify integration, accelerate delivery, cut costs, and eliminate waste, Digibee stands out as the ideal choice for businesses aiming to optimize their integration strategies. As a leader in the iPaaS category for mid-market and enterprise markets since fall 2023, Digibee continues to set the standard in the industry.
Experience the Digibee difference today and join the ranks of our satisfied customers. For more information, talk to our integration experts about your specific use case and business needs and discover how our platform can transform your integration processes.
I had the honor of presenting on Digibee’s behalf at this year’s Gartner Innovation & Business Solutions Summit in Las Vegas, addressing over 150 leaders from diverse technical backgrounds and industries. Showcasing Digibee’s product is always a pleasure, but presenting a customer case study is even better. Especially when the results witnessed showed drastic reductions in overall effort and cost.
Integration architecture is a collection of strategically selected infrastructure, services, protocols, and systems that serves as the foundation for integrating enterprise applications and data. Often the domain of an enterprise IT architect or integration leader, integration architecture facilitates automation, real-time data and analytics, and connected business workflows.
Companies that have well-designed integration architecture in place have the flexibility to experiment and scale with all kinds of connected workflows. Because data moves freely through their systems and applications can communicate with one another efficiently, these companies are more likely to succeed at digital transformation and achieve more faster than their less streamlined counterparts.
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Integration architecture has advanced from simple, point-to-point connections to enterprise integration platforms that support thousands of services and applications. Companies with complex integration needs often run multiple models, from hard-coded legacy deployments to a collection of modern APIs.
Point-to-point (P2P) integration is a traditional method that connects two applications with either custom code or APIs, syncing data between them in regular intervals. Point-to-point doesn’t handle complexity and volume well, so engineering teams usually adopt other models as their integration needs grow.
Hub-and-spoke architecture is a common alternative to P2P. Traditionally, the hub-and-spoke model creates a central hub through which all integrations pass. In this case, the hub acts as the primary point of processing and routing for data exchanged between various applications (“spokes”). Over the years, the hub-and-spoke model has evolved to meet the needs of companies that have migrated some or all of their systems to the cloud, an improvement made possible by modern integration platforms.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an approach to development that relies on reusable, connected services to run business processes and build software functionality. Both hub-and-spoke and enterprise service bus (ESB) models apply this approach in different ways—in hub-and-spoke, each service is a spoke that sends data through the centralized hub, while an ESB allows services to integrate more modularly.
A simple example of SOA’s benefits lies in authentication. Rather than hard-code authentication into each application, developers use an enterprise service like Okta or auth0, connecting it once to integration platform and applying it wherever it’s needed.
Implementing SOA architecture used to require a top-down, expensive overhaul with major time and vendor commitments, but today’s integration platforms allow for cost-effective, incremental improvements at scale. Most enterprises use an iPaaS, ESB, or both to manage integrations within this framework.
The enterprise service bus, or ESB, came about as a new way of exposing integrations synchronously across older and newer enterprise systems through a message bus. As they evolved, ESBs became more decentralized to eliminate single points of failure, allowing developers to plug different applications into the bus without necessarily needing an infrastructure component.
An integration platform as a service, or iPaaS, is a platform developers use to build and manage any combination of these architectures and models in a scalable way. It includes features like reusable components, a low-code interface, managed infrastructure, prebuilt integrations, and enterprise support.
Integration platforms enable a more flexible iteration of hub-and-spoke architecture, where not every integration is required to run through a single, centralized location. Instead, developers can manage multiple integration patterns on a single platform, applying global rules and configurations across the entire system. This allows for a more distributed and efficient flow of data, tailored to specific business needs.
For example, consider a scenario where data from a product analytics tool is sent to a data lake for use in a business intelligence (BI) platform, as well as triggering actions in the product itself. Simultaneously, structured data from your CRM might be directed to a separate data warehouse, but eventually, it also feeds into the same BI tool to provide a fuller picture of customer activity in your product. In this case, the “hub” is the integration platform—within this hub, data flows in various ways, each optimized for specific goals and efficiencies.
The iPaaS is the gold standard for enterprise integrations. It allows developers to connect applications and data without ripping and replacing legacy systems, adding technical debt, or requiring months of specialized training. No matter how complex integration needs, digital transformation can be done safely and modularly, protecting existing systems while modernizing business processes.
Your integration architecture should serve two main purposes: connect applications to enable process automation, and connect data to enable real-time analytics, transparency, and AI.
The first use case is application integration, or connecting the applications that power your business. This makes workflow automation and complex business processes possible at scale.
The average enterprise has thousands of applications deployed. Application integration is the process of connecting them using one or more of the aforementioned models, with the goal of optimizing efficiency and cost while protecting company data.
The second use case is data integration, or the process of connecting multiple sources and enabling the real-time flow of data across the organization. Enterprise integration architecture enables cloud integration, where data from both legacy and on-premise systems is securely integrated and accessible in the cloud. This opens up a world of possibilities where real-time data can be used to improve the customer experiment, implement AI workflows, and experiment freely with new technology while protecting underlying systems.
When companies try to build their own integration architecture or make do with a budget solution, IT often spends more time managing it than putting their integrations to good use. As the number of systems that need integrating grows—especially a mix of legacy, on-prem, and cloud tools—the technical debt and workarounds become too cumbersome.
Enterprise integration architecture is a secure, scalable solution set built for large companies that must manage hundreds or more applications and tools. iPaaS, API management, and [data] platforms typically have enterprise-grade features like built-in security and access controls, high availability and redundancy, and global configurations that let developers spend less time on maintenance and governance. Some also allow users to work in a low-code UI, allowing generalized and junior developers to build integrations without special training.
By investing in enterprise integration architecture, IT teams see a host of benefits:
To embrace enterprise integration architecture, you’ll need to invest in an integration platform as a service (iPaaS). An iPaaS typically has scalable, reusable components that make it easier for the general developer to manage multiple integration models and thousands of applications and services in one place, plus the ability to integrate with best-in-class API and ETL solutions.
The integration platform market is complex. Some solutions require specialists and extensive training, while others will help you move quickly and efficiently toward modernizing your integrations. Take a look at this guide to understand which iPaaS solutions are available, the pros and cons, and how to make a decision as an iPaaS buyer.
Here are some top features to look for:
Digibee is the only integration platform that scales application integration workflows while reducing cost, technical debt, and the burden on development teams. It allows developers to deploy any integration model they like, quickly building, testing, deploying, and monitoring every integration from one flexible platform.
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