Let me start by introducing myself properly: I’m Renat Zubairov, CEO and Co-Founder of a Germany-based company elastic.io, part-time techie, part-time sales, full-time father of three. And I will be hosting a topic at the SaaStr Annual Braindates 2020. While working at our previous companies, Igor, Rico (the other elastic.io co-founders) and I realized how much of a challenge the …
With $billions invested in digital transformation over recent years, it is little surprise that IDC’s 2020 forecast predicts a continued commitment to the digital enterprise. Moreover, it’s even had a fresh new look for 2020 as the ‘digital-first’ enterprise. What is interesting is the estimation that over the next five years over 90 percent of new apps will be cloud-native, …
The Open Integration Hub (OIH), has reached a milestone this week as it concludes the two-year funding commitment from Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Just to remind you, OIH project was founded in 2017 to create a central open source integration platform offering a uniform and secure standard for automatic data synchronization across various applications. With …
In 2018, the forecast for the iPaaS market was to grow by an astonishing 42.1% CAGR to reach a global market valuation of US $8.6billion by 2024. A considerably more recent forecast suggested a moderate, yet ‘robustly’ positive CAGR of 11.9% to reach $1.2 billion by 2022. Of all the forecasts for the global integration platform as a service (iPaaS) …
How many times have we wondered whether school lessons will ever be useful in the outside world? I never thought of the importance of trigonometry until I tried to fit a large sofa through a narrow doorway! In a similar way – unless your career path takes you in certain directions – many may question the value of grammar in …
By the September deadline, Europe’s banks and fintech companies should be compliant with the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Rather than focusing inwards on business operations, PSD2 is an outward-looking directive. It encourages open access and competition in the banking industry. Organisations across the breadth of the industry are required to open their payments infrastructures and customer data to third …
In the previous article of our last chapter of Data Integration Best Practices, we took a look at how to describe integrations in such a way that everybody – from developers to business users – understands the requirements correctly. We also discussed why you eventually might need some type of an integration layer to keep your integration projects under control. …
So far, in our blog series Data Integration Best practices, we have covered the different types of high-level and low-level problems occurring in data integration projects. We have also addressed the different types of integration, the systems that move data and even the pricing aspect of such a project. Ten articles later, we arrived at best practices moving forward. In …
Before the arrival of the SaaS subscription business model, enterprise ISVs could focus on doing what they do best – developing great software to solve a business challenge faced by their target market. The download CD (remember those?!) had a purchase price. Then periodic updates followed until the product was deemed obsolete. It was a straightforward, one-size fits all model …
While defining a data integration project we should consider what, when and how we want to integrate. Once we have done this, we can move on with the last step of the plan: the costs. The billion-dollar question… how deep should we dig into our pockets? If we want to have a realistic idea of the cost of our integration …