Fira
Construction & Infrastructure
In order to streamline real-time integrations while keeping costs low and ensuring reliable production and predictable maintenance costs, Fira adopted Frends iPaaS.
Fira
Construction & Infrastructure
In order to streamline real-time integrations while keeping costs low and ensuring reliable production and predictable maintenance costs, Fira adopted Frends iPaaS.
Business Goals
Fira is an innovative construction service company specializing in delivering premium project solutions particularly in the capital region. Our operations are structured around four core service areas: residential construction, commercial construction, modernization, and pipe renovations. At Fira, we pride ourselves on creating 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 and standardize their implementation methods while reducing the number of platforms they were using, 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.
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. The company appreciates that with Frends, they can build integrations in such a way that the integrations or their certain segments 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 noted seamless cooperation with Frends since the project's inception, with all integrations delivered as planned and necessary fixes implemented effectively.
"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.
To increase digitalization and improve dataflows between different systems, Frends has become an indispensable tool in the Fira's digital transformation journey, bolstering their industrial construction capabilities. Frends aligns perfectly with the company's needs and supports company’s long-term strategic goals, ensuring a robust IT architecture that effectively enables their business operations.
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Reduced the number of platforms in use with the help of Frends
Faster development time achieved via re-usable integrations and APIs enabled by Frends
Standardized implementation and integration development methods
