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Cloud Application Integration
Enterprises are increasingly moving vital business applications into the cloud using SaaS providers such as Salesforce, SuccessFactors and NetSuite. This creates a huge challenge in meeting new business demands for application integration, business process automation and data synchronization between internal IT applications and applications in the cloud.
The Kapow Katalyst Application Integration Platform delivers unprecedented speed in time to market for integrating internal IT and Cloud applications. Katalyst provides a unique visual flow-chart development environment that combines with a web browser navigation environment, allowing for real-time translation of business requirements directly into an integration solution. Katalyst can not only access applications and data in any standard format like Email servers, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, CSV, Excel, PDF, File systems and FTP servers, but using the built-in highly scalable Automation Browser, also integrating directly with an application using the existing web interface. This eliminates the dependency of existing documented APIs or adapters, and allows for on-demand delivery of business critical application integration solutions, both on-premise and in the cloud.
Featured Customer Success Stories in Cloud Application Integration:
Leading Asian telco consolidates its customer facing portals using Kapow.
Challenge
- A leading Asian telco wanted to consolidate 15 customer facing portals onto 1 platform to give the company a more cohesive brand and enable them to better cross-sell services and products. Yellow pages, youth content, social networking, broadband and other services were present on individual portals, leaving the user to browse multiple sources.
- The project involved a new CMS, a new portal system and a myriad of underlying databases and other systems.
- Time was of the essence and the budget was extremely constrained -- less than half of what just 1 portal had initially cost to develop.
Solution
- Kapow carried out a POC that involved an integration and common interface for 3 separate major portal functions, complete with single sign-on to the applications.
- The POC was developed in 2 days and convinced them that Kapow was the way to go.
Results
- In 1 month, Kapow was used to migrate 2 major entry portals into the new CMS.
- Dozens of processes and applications that enable users to interact with the company to order, review and utilize its products and services were developed as web services and deployed to the new portal system. All without recoding the underlying system.
- Within the first 2 months, the majority of content and functionality was successfully integrated to the new environment.
- Without Kapow, the development would have been taken at least 10X longer, incorporated a much larger development team and resulted in a project out of scope and out of budget.
European ISP makes it easy for customers to migrate to their service by automatically importing email archives and settings.
Challenge
- Expand their customer base by opening new international markets.
- Make it easy for new customers to migrate to their service by automatically migrating customer data from other portals such as Google Gmail, Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo Mail.
Solution
- Kapow provides the technical infrastructure to realize the new customer acquisition strategy.
- Automates the migration of new data on behalf of new customers.
Results
- Expands customer base by removing barrier to service adoption.
- Improves customer satisfaction by accelerating time to value.
This professional staffing services company automates business processes with Kapow robots, freeing up IT staff and resources.
Challenge
- Information about job opportunities is continuously updated.
- IT was inundated with requests for special reports to be run and delivered, detracting from everyday responsibilities.
- They needed to automate data extraction and interface with internal applications.
Solution
- Kapow robots dynamically take requests from the business as they come in via a web services infrastructure.
- The robots make use of the web interface of various IT systems and business applications to automate business operations and processes.
Results
- With Kapow, the company can scale to meet reporting demands from their business clients.
- Kapow removes the time required for IT staff to manually generate and deliver the requested reports.
- With Kapow, the IT group is more responsive to the business while freeing up their time to execute other responsibilities.
Kapow supports this customer's innovative business model by automating data flow between applications, enabling visitors to complete e-commerce transactions from social media sites.
Solution
- Kapow enables a seamless transaction without leaving the social media site. The end user clicks on a banner that opens an online store front showing the merchant's products and allowing the user to purchase.
- When the end user has selected desired items and clicks “buy,” it's a Kapow robot that goes to the merchant site, in real-time, to complete the transaction.
- The end user remains within the social media site and waits to see a confirmation.
Results
- With a best-of-breed web intelligence process in place, the social commerce company is attracting more Fortune 1000 customers.
- Kapow makes it easy to develop automated transaction processes.
- Kapow's method of data extraction is extremely tolerant of website changes and easy to adapt when changes are needed, reducing maintenance time and expense.
A leading provider of branded merchandise is using Kapow to aggregate supplier data from partner sites so visitors to their e-commerce platform can take advantage of bulk discounts and an industry view of all promotional products and pricing.
Challenge
- Their existing platform only offered intra-company purchasing aggregation – so you could receive a volume discount based on orders your colleagues placed around the same time. They wanted to offer a new technology platform that would give users a view into all products, group discounts and pricing in the branded merchandise industry.
- Specifically, they wanted to pull product data from partner/supplier websites into their application to give customers a 360 degree view of promotional products from 1 website.
Solution
- Kapow automates web intelligence from partner sites, with no coding required.
- Robots will be used to complete e-commerce transactions.
Results
- Their customers are now able to take advantage of bulk discounts while choosing from a larger inventory of products. This results in substantial cost savings and improved service.
- Kapow enables them to integrate with partner/supplier applications in an automated fashion, something they couldn't do before.
Challenge