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Crowded space, but darn few (if any) shared source or community based solutions. Here's a several examples from a market study I did in 2018: Workato, Apiant, I
by rrggrr 7y ago
Crowded space, but darn few (if any) shared source or community based solutions. Here's a several examples from a market study I did in 2018: Workato, Apiant, Inegromat, Snaplogic, CloudHQ, Boomi, Tibco, Jitterbit, AWS Lambda, Mulesoft, Tray.io, ApacheNiFi, Stringify, Adeptia, Kotive, Cazoomi, Scribesoft and several more.
I really think the community angle is unique.
- jonjomckay 7y agoI work at Boomi, on their Flow product (similar to this project), and we open source everything in our product, except for our core workflow engine - https://github.com/manywho https://github.com/manywho (our pre-acquisition name if you're wondering). The community part is hard to generate though... there's a lot of enterprise in the workflow space.
- rrggrr 7y agoStandardLib also has a community, though not sure how big it may be. Pricing is a key differentiator. My market research included a pricing analysis and Boomi was priced well above Zapier and other similar solutions. I think there is a LOT of money ceded to less expensive offerings by 10 or 15 providers (including Boomi) all chasing the same enterprise market. I would've expected tiered pricing to emerge to a greater extent, but haven't seen it. I watch this space very closely.
- tarsinge 7y agoThank you for sharing this list. It’s maybe a dumb question but even after looking in some of them I usually fall back on a classic cron job + some Python scripts for automation for the flexibility. What’s the biggest advantage of these services / solutions when you already have some servers available?
- toomuchtodo 7y agoAbility for a non-technical user to implement and manage the automation.
- pkalinowski 7y agoYou don't have to learn several APIs to do any integration
- mbesto 7y agoWhich one in your opinion allows for extensions of those APIs the best at a SMB price point? My frustration with Zapier is that I if they don't support the trigger, I'm kinda sol. I wanna be able to say "I want to manually add this API call" in a low code environment. Also - do you mind if I grab some of your time to discuss on the phone? my contact details are in my profile. Thanks!
- HatchedLake721 7y agoIs your market study available to read anywhere?
- rrggrr 7y agoFeel free to email me for it. My contact info in my profile (soon)
- infinite8s 7y agoAny chance it's still available?