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Frends is chosen as one of the best integration platforms on the peer-to-peer review platform G2, earning badges for "Easiest Setup", "Fastest Implementation" and "Easiest Admin".
Frends iPaaS is a low-code integration platform designed to simplify integration and automation. With Frends, higher education institutions can easily connect systems, automate processes, and manage APIs without extensive technical expertise.
Higher education institutions benefit from Frends' reusable integrations, visibility into processes, and secure handling of personal information. This saves time and resources while ensuring better, more efficient services for students. Automate tasks, reduce manual work, and minimize errors with Frends.
Frends iPaaS makes it simple for different systems to work together, whether they’re older or newer, on-premise or hybrid. This is critical for institutions using legacy systems alongside newer cloud services. Easily share and access important data and ensure both students and staff receive better, faster services.
Easily gather information from different departments in one place and get a 360-degree view of your educational institution with Frends iPaaS.
Universities often use multiple systems for admissions, enrollment, grades, and academic records. Frends iPaaS can integrate these disparate systems with others like CRM or learning management systems (LMS). With real-time syncing of student data across platforms, you ensure accuracy in reporting and eliminates the need for manual updates.
Handling applications from multiple sources, university portals, and international student systems can be challenging. Frends iPaaS automates data transfers between these systems and student databases, speeding up application processing, improving communication with prospective students, and reducing manual data entry.
As you gather data from various systems — such as academic performance, student engagement, and financial reports — Frends iPaaS consolidates this information and connects it to business intelligence tools like Tableau or Power BI. This provides better insights from unified data sources, enabling data-driven decision-making.
Universities are using IoT for smart campus projects like energy management, security, and facilities monitoring. With iPaaS, you can connect IoT platforms to campus management systems, allowing real-time monitoring of energy use, building security, and equipment management — all through a single, easy-to-use interface.
Aalto University, Finland's second-largest university, uses Frends iPaaS for integration and process automation. Aalto University now easily connects thousands of students and staff and ensures a smooth data flow.
"Frends has a modern, process-driven way to develop and document integrations. The fact that there’s a collaboration forum with other municipalities is a big plus. It was also possible to place the product in a Swedish data center and still be able to use the SaaS service."
Claes Öster
Division Manager at Höglandets IT
“To be able to reach our goals, we needed a platform that was safe, flexible, and easy to manage, all of which we have found in Frends. Frends now plays an important role in our overall IT-strategy when it comes to digitalizing and automating our processes.”
Mari Fryklund
IT Manager at Municipality of Östersund
"Frends has allowed us to reuse data in our complex IT landscape with systems of various ages. The team's expertise in both older and newer interface technologies has been invaluable. Reusability brings us significant savings of time and money."
Jarno Koppala
ICT Architect at City of Helsinki
Why iPaaS Matters for Higher Education
Higher education is going through a major shift with the rise of MOOCs and cloud-based learning platforms. Students can now access courses from anywhere, making learning more flexible and accessible. But managing all these systems and keeping them connected can be a real challenge.
Frends iPaaS steps in to make life easier for universities. Instead of juggling disconnected systems, iPaaS integrates everything — LMS, student portals, and more—into one smooth workflow. This means less manual work, more automation, and better communication between students and staff.
With Frends iPaaS, universities can create a connected learning environment. Imagine students signing up for courses, accessing lectures, submitting assignments, and receiving grades — all through one platform. Frends iPaaS brings these pieces together, making it easy for students to focus on learning, not navigating different systems.
It also allows for real-time collaboration between students and professors, helping to improve communication and support. Plus, it makes it easier for universities to keep things running smoothly, even as they add new tools or scale their systems.
As universities grow and adopt more technology, their IT systems need to keep up. Frends iPaaS is designed to scale with your institution. Adding new tools or systems is simple, and it reduces the need for custom coding or complicated IT infrastructure. This helps universities save time, money, and resources while focusing on what matters— education.
Data security is a big concern for universities, especially with so much sensitive information being shared online. Frends iPaaS ensures secure data transfers between systems, protecting student records, financial information, and more. By automating these processes, iPaaS reduces the risk of human error and ensures everything stays up-to-date and safe.
With more students learning online and more tools being used every day, iPaaS is becoming essential for higher education. It simplifies the way universities manage their technology, making it easier to automate processes, secure data, and provide a better experience for both students and staff.
In short, Frends iPaaS helps higher education institutions keep up with the times. It’s a tool that makes the shift to digital learning smoother, more secure, and easier to manage. By connecting systems and automating tasks, iPaaS frees up time and resources so universities can focus on what they do best — educating the next generation.
With Frends iPaaS, we can operate and understand everything even without technical knowledge.
Patrick Maltusch
Head of Integration at Aalto University
Reusable integrations help organizations save time and money.
The City of Helsinki's Department of Education uses Frends iPaaS to smoothly move data to the cloud, ensure real-time updates across systems, save time and money with reusable tools, and modernize old systems to fit into a modern cloud framework.
Read moreSundbyberg Municipality uses Frends iPaaS to tackle integration challenges across various systems. Their previous solution was slow, costly, and lacked transparency. With Frends, they now have better control, error reporting, and system visibility, which helps reduce manual tasks like account management, ultimately saving time and money.
Read moreHöglandets IT serves 5 Swedish municipalities. They resolved their previous integration challenges using Frends and are now successfully integrating their financial systems while scaling up other integrations across the board.
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Reviews
Frends is chosen as one of the best integration platforms on the peer-to-peer review platform G2, earning badges for "Easiest Setup", "Fastest Implementation" and "Easiest Admin".
Certifications
Ensure certified quality and reliability: The International Organization for Standardization, ISO, has qualified Frends for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 27001.
Reviews
Frends users have given the iPaaS a remarkable 4.5 rating on the peer review and ratings platform Gartner Peer Insights.
Certifications
Nixu, a cybersecurity company accredited to audit high-security information systems, has certified Frends. The certification includes the Frends iPaaS system, web application, integration agents, as well as the Azure environment hosting Frends.
Prepare your IT infrastructure for the future with Frends iPaaS. Modernize legacy systems, streamline integrations across departments, and automate processes to ensure smooth, efficient operations for students, staff, and faculty.