Reliable and Fast Digital Services: Frends iPaaS as your Digital Integration Hub

When you develop new digital services that need to access back-end systems, your legacy systems can get overwhelmed by the increased load. Frends iPaaS works as a flexible layer between your APIs and systems, making your digital services more scalable and adaptable. Retire old systems, migrate to new environments, mix and match between cloud and on-premises, and ensure that your back-end systems are not overloaded.

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The best way to connect digital services

Using Frends iPaaS as your Digital Integration Hub lets you extend the life of your legacy systems by turning them into easy-to-use APIs, without the need to separately maintain complex microservices. It also allows you to replace or update the underlying systems seamlessly, without affecting your users.

As your enterprise grows, your systems should too. Frends iPaaS lets you create scalable APIs that connect to your systems without being tightly dependent on them. By using In-Memory Databases and Frends Data Pumps, the platform reduces the load on your back-end systems, ensuring fast and easy integrations.

Frends is available on both Azure and Cleura cloud platforms, which, like Frends itself, support the ISO 27001 Information Security Standard and the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard. Security measures such as OAuth 2.0 authentication protect your data across all connected systems. With built-in monitoring and automated error handling, Frends ensures that your integrations run smoothly and securely at all times.

Digital Integration Hub (DIH) - what, why, and how?

When you need to develop new digital services like mobile apps, websites, or fast event-based processes that need to access your existing back-end systems (such as CRMs or ERPs), you might face a challenge: your old legacy systems could be too slow or overwhelmed by the extra load from these new applications.

Modernize legacy systems

This is where the Digital Integration Hub (DIH) helps. DIH connects to legacy systems using various connectors—either system-specific adapters or standard connectors. It gathers and merges the data, then makes it available for your digital needs (like mobile apps, business processes, live business intelligence, and websites) as reusable APIs.

The DIH also adds a data storage layer between the APIs and the back-end systems. This storage holds a consolidated copy of the back-end data, with Frends' data pumps pulling the data from different old and new systems into a customized data structure.

The data storage itself is an in-memory cloud-based database using industry-standard solutions such as Redis Cache. The APIs inside Frends iPaaS agents then use that data to enable low-latency APIs even when there are thousands of concurrent operations per second.

Why Frends iPaaS?

Using Frends iPaaS as your Digital Integration Hub extends the life of your legacy systems by transforming them into easy-to-use APIs, without the need to separately maintain complex microservices. It also enables replacements or updates to underlying systems, without disrupting user experience.

Frends iPaaS acts as a layer between your APIs and back-end systems, allowing user-facing APIs to operate independently. This makes integrations more flexible and scalable. As a Data Integration Hub (DIH), Frends leverages In-Memory Databases and data pumps to ensure that even with thousands of concurrent requests, your legacy systems handle the load efficiently.

“With Frends, we can easily introduce new technologies to our ecosystem and remove old ones without risk. Frends works as a hub or an integration layer, which sets no limitations for the future. We can build various APIs and processes and use automation capabilities for increased efficiency. It's an easy-to-use platform, which makes minor modifications and problem-solving easy even if you haven’t built the processes yourself."

Jere Karhunen

System Architect at MTV

The Frends Promise: Easy, Fast and Transparent

Easy to Adapt and Scale

Frends iPaaS as your Digital Integration Hub allows for ease of adaptability and scalability. You can retire old systems, migrate systems to new environments, mix and match cloud and on-premises environments, and ensure that your back-end systems are not overloaded by an unanticipated volume of requests.

Additionally, connecting your systems through Frends iPaaS enhances the user experience. Thanks to data pumps and In-Memory Databases, integrations always run quickly and smoothly, even if the underlying processes take more time.

Fast Set-Up

Frends iPaaS makes the set-up fast and efficient with its low-code approach. Using ready-made tasks, templates, and reusable sub-processes, you can streamline your integration without starting from scratch.

With Frends, you can speed up key business processes, like order-to-cash and procure-to-pay, by integrating your ERP, billing, and payment systems. Automate everything from quote generation and purchase orders to payment processing and inventory management.

The intuitive interface and low-code tools ensure you’re up and running quickly, reducing both effort and costs.

Transparent Processes

With Frends iPaaS, you gain full visibility into your back-end processes and workflow steps. Enjoy clear, accessible monitoring and management of your integration processes, ensuring transparency and control at every stage.

Frends provides detailed insights into how data flows between your CRM, ERP, and other connected systems, allowing you to spot inefficiencies, optimize performance, and maintain a consistent and accurate data landscape across your enterprise.

This visibility eliminates data silos and reduces manual effort, making your processes more efficient and easier to manage.

"Frends is the crucial interpreter between different systems, and it supports our microservice thinking. It would be impossible to manage the current integrations without Frends. The cooperation has been excellent, and the team feels like a part of us. They are hard-working, and the project model with a scrum master has worked very well. We have regular meetups both remotely and face-to-face."

Veli-Matti Huhtala

Product Owner at MTV

What others have achieved

MTV modernizes, integrates, and automates with Frends

MTV, Finland's leading commercial TV station, uses Frends iPaaS to modernize and streamline their business-critical processes. By integrating systems such as CRM and financial reporting, Frends has enabled MTV to automate processes across their organization, ensuring smooth data flow and reliable operations. Frends helped MTV manage the integration of their new B2B CRM system, Salesforce, improving transparency across their business functions.

Lähitaksi extends back-end system lifespan with flexible frontend integration

Lähitaksi uses Frends to modernize its IT landscape. By connecting applications with legacy systems through flexible, reusable APIs, Frends has enabled faster operations, mobile payment capabilities, and enhanced CRM analytics. This way, Lähitaksi has been able to extend the lifespan of existing systems and reduced the need for costly infrastructure investments.

Levi Ski combines IoT, snowcat, PoS, and slope data with Frends

Frends iPaaS is the backbone of the innovative Levi Ski app, enhancing the experience for visitors at Levi Ski Resort. By integrating data from IoT devices, snowcats, point-of-sale (PoS) systems, and slope management tools, the resort can offer a more personalized visitor experience. The app provides real-time access to receipts, activity history, and loyalty points.

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