Fira: Adopted Frends to streamline real-time integrations, lower costs, and ensure reliable production

Key takeaways

Finnish construction company Fira adopted Frends to standardize and streamline its integration work across reporting and procurement processes.

Among the results were:

  • Reusable integration components built that can serve multiple workflows, speeding up overall development time.
  • Frends used for ELT workloads and real-time dataflows, including reporting and source-to-pay processes.
  • All planned integrations delivered as scheduled, with fixes implemented effectively throughout the partnership.
Industry
Construction
Company size
300+ employees
Headquarters
Vantaa, Finland
Website
fira.fi

Fira is an innovative construction service company specializing in delivering premium project solutions. Fira's operations are structured around four core service areas: residential construction, commercial construction, modernization, and pipe renovations. Fira creates environmentally conscious housing and construction solutions that exceed customer expectations and enable them to achieve their objectives.

To improve the maintenance and upkeep of their integration services, as well as to standardize their implementation methods, Fira recognized the need to adopt an iPaaS (integration platform as a service) solution. By incorporating an iPaaS into their business operations, they expected to achieve better process management and maintenance for integrations, increasing efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

The cooperation with Frends has always been in a good spirit at all levels. They react quickly to customer feedback, and we can rely on their support in the development of the integration domain."

Jarmo Kärkkäinen, Head of IT

 

Integration Challenges

In order to streamline real-time integrations while keeping costs low and ensuring reliable production and predictable maintenance costs, Fira sought out a top-performing solution on the market. Following an evaluation process in June 2022, Fira ultimately made the decision to partner with Frends iPaaS.

As part of their evaluation process, Fira recognized the user-friendliness of the Frends platform and noted that the learning curve for their internal team to integrate Frends into their operations fully was lower than with other solutions evaluated. This made Frends an attractive choice for the company as they sought to streamline their processes and increase efficiency.

 

Results

Currently, Fira uses Frends to handle some of the critical dataflows. They especially appreciate the fact that they can build integrations in a way that can be re-used in multiple integration workflows, which accelerates overall development time. Frends also serves as an integration platform for ELT (Export-Load-Transform) workloads and real-time dataflows, such as reporting and source-to-pay processes (S2P).

Fira has experienced seamless cooperation with Frends since the project's inception, with all integrations delivered as planned and necessary fixes implemented effectively.

"The cooperation with Frends has always been in a good spirit at all levels. They react quickly to customer feedback, and we can rely on their support in the development of the integration domain," says Jarmo Kärkkäinen, Head of IT.

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