SnapLogic, Maritz Optimize No-Code Integration for Employee Engagement, Customer Loyalty Programs

SmartBear Accelerates API Development And Deployment with SwaggerHub Integration with Apigee

Oracle, with its acquisition of Apiary, is changing the game for API workflows.  The just-launched Oracle API Platform Cloud Service sports new tools that let front-end developers quickly design, build and test APIs – all without help from backend IT. IDN speaks with Oracle’s Vikas Anand.

SnapLogic is bringing machine learning and AI to the complex tasks of integration and analytics. The capability, named Iris, is one of the key upgrades in SnapLogic Spring 2017 release of its cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS)  IDN talks with SnapLgic CEO Gaurav Dhillon.

As the low-code app platform movement converges with traditions of using APIs for  integration and access backend data, enterprises are looking for new best practices to bridge existing and new API capabilities.   Oracle’s Shay Shmeltzer and Robert Wunderlich share with IDN keen ideas worth consideration.

A growing number of companies want to improve the realtime access to their far-flung data.  That said, many have trouble achieving this goal. Today, IoT solutions using cloud integration hold some keys to unlocking the promise of realtime for all sorts of projects. Built.io’s CTO Nishant Patel explains the technology approach – and use cases.

As APIs have become more critical to enterprise efforts to reshape IT and enable digital transformation, MuleSoft execs say it’s time to remove the speed bumps that can impede API adoption and innovation.  IDN talks with MuleSoft’s Ahyoung An about Crowd, the latest edition of company’s API-led connectivity platform.

SmartBear Software is offering a new unified open source Swagger Editor and UI to make it easier to design, document and consume APIs using the OpenAPI/Swagger toolchain.  SmartBear also adds IBM Cloud to its commercial SwaggerHub integrated API platform offering.

As APIs become a popular part of digital transformation, adopters are finding API management across the ‘full lifecycle,’ adds to business impact and ROI.  IDN looks at the study from CA Technologies and Coleman Parkes Research.

Jitterbit’s latest cloud integration platform update, Harmony Winter ’17, takes self-service integration to a new level -- with a simple interface, smart recipes and more. It's all designed to help turn non-technical users into powerful ‘citizen’ integrators.  Jitterbit execs tell IDN why without self-service integration, the tasks that will build out the digital enterprise just won’t scale. 

Integration is proving a key part of meeting daily deliverables for digital transformation. Dell Boomi’s latest update for AtomSphere iPaaS is the largest yet -- with some 200 enhancements. IDN speaks with Boomi execs about a new intuitive UI for faster turn-arounds; a  slew of new connectors; and deeper data management and governance.   

Tibco Software is unifying API Management, ‘hybrid gateways’ and support for containers with its just-released Tibco Mashery Local 4.0. The product aims to provide a more flexible, secure and reliable end-to-end infrastructure for the digital enterprise -- whether using cloud, on-prem or both. IDN speaks with Tibco’s Ed Julson.