iPaas technologies are the 21st-century integration solutions that will help you streamline your software systems and give your business a competitive advantage in today’s ever-changing market. Slow service integrations within your company lead to slower company development overall. If your IT department’s tasks mostly consist of busy work (slowly translating data between applications or fixing API errors), then other sectors of your business won’t thrive as they’re waiting for these fixes. How do you prevent this from happening? Invest in an iPaas solution that provides a single platform for your software suite to promote greater ease of use, reliable connectors, and scalability for businesses of all sizes.
Although the deployment of new systems can take time, you’ll quickly see the benefits of iPaas integration and automation. With larger data warehouses available, faster B2B integration, and a single application that can be used in many different environments, seasoned employees and new hires alike will soon be shouting in the streets to integrate all PaaS systems across the world. Or at least, they’ll quietly appreciate the new cloud technologies you’ve put in place.
What are iPaas?
Platform as a service (PaaS) is an application development environment that’s based in the cloud. From more simple cloud-based apps to full-on enterprise applications, a cloud service provider can give you the PaaS resources you need to create and maintain cloud applications. In addition to app development, PaaS includes infrastructure and equipment, middleware, business intelligence services, business process management, database management systems, and more.
Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a cloud-based application and data integration scenario. An iPaas provider offers the various tools you use in your business, be they cloud-based or on-premise applications, datasets, or other business processes. It can integrate multiple datasets to help you build a greater understanding of the patterns your business regularly encounters. Without installing new middleware or hardware and without creating a large backlog of tasks for your IT team, iPaas technology connects all of your business processes. As a multi-tenant platform, iPaas supports real-time integration and will in turn make your software work for you.
What does iPaas offer?
When it comes to your specific business, you may be asking yourself what can iPaas do? An iPaaS offering is a superior data management environment because it has the ability to integrate cloud-to-cloud data as well as cloud-to-on-premise or even the datasets from multiple on-premise systems. If you work in an EDI environment, iPaas can consolidate the tools you and your trading partners need in one user-friendly data warehouse. What this means for you is that you’ll be able to have all of your data in one place, and the synthesis of these data sets will lead to greater overall functionality for your integrated platform. If you aren’t sure whether your data management capability is at its peak, get an assessment to see, maybe for the first time, if your software systems are working for you.
As an application development environment, an iPaas cloud service also has the ability to incorporate built-in software components (SOA) to your existing application framework. It also creates a console for application integration within your business, so that SaaS applications can communicate with different applications on-premise can communicate with different software applications in different departments. It’s a single solution for all sectors of your business that, when employed, creates a seamless workflow for your entire company.
What is HRIS?
A Human Resource Information System (HRIS) provides another opportunity to integrate data in a way that optimizes workflow by providing the core HR functions your business needs. This HR software helps with managing employee data for your existing employees, including employee benefits and performance management. It can also help with the process of hiring new employees by keeping all of that data in one centralized location. From recruiting and workforce management to benefits management and performance reviews, an HRIS can integrate data from different applications within your HR department to improve the user experience of your company’s entire employee journey.
Some HRIS functions include applicant tracking (ATS) and resume management, managing personal information, storing company documents, benefits administration software, integration with payroll software, performance development and promotion plans, a place to log formal disciplinary actions, tracking completed employee training, and succession tracking to help you retain your best employees. Reference Arcoro’s HRIS buyers guide to determine which cloud integrations match your company’s needs and will give you a seamless HR solution.