Connecting to a system is only one aspect of ensuring that your business processes, analytics, and customer-facing products are stable and maintainable.
Many SaaS applications charge using consumption-based metrics. When using cloud connectors, it’s important to track usage to ensure you don’t exceed your SLAs.
Similarly, cloud infrastructure providers like AWS often charge for transmitting data. Compressing and caching service requests to minimize the cost of data in the cloud can help business save money.
With both on-premises and cloud applications, you may have a limited number of connections. When you reach that limit, you may be unable to connect, effectively shutting down any related workflow. Connector platforms that provide connection pooling and session management can ensure you optimize your available connections and give you real-time visibility into connection and session usage.
Security is a key requirement when transmitting both business data and customer data. Support for a broad spectrum of security policies, signatures, and encryption is essential to ensure you can protect your services and data.
Many businesses have custom systems that deliver their differentiating products and services. Being able to create your own custom connector that runs on an enterprise connectivity platform can enable you to link custom systems into automated workflows and processes easily.
As SaaS applications, on-premises applications, devices, and other systems change, packaged connectors can stop working. Ensure your connectors are maintained across versions so you can upgrade your applications without risk.
For an agile, competitive business, take advantage of integration connectors to deliver faster and innovate at scale.