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HyperAutomation is revolutionizing businesses, powered by new integration ware that makes it easier to glue AI, RPO, IOT and other tech advancements into incumbent business processes. HyperDrive is an example of the bleeding edge of this new enterprise tech. But how does it work and why is it so different to APIs and other data connectors?
Does your business have the ‘Amazonian’ capability to process every customer request directly from its web-shop or eCommerce site? If the answer is no, you wouldn’t be alone. A study by McKinsey of a leading high-street bank a decade ago found that almost 60% of processes still used hard-copy forms or required some level of human intervention. The fact is, the majority of business processes in most companies aren’t automated still today.
The role of a codeless iPaaS is to build a bridge between the data silos that span the enterprise to form up a single-version of the truth when it comes to the critical data landscapes executives need to see.
The quality of data that new app designers want to consume into their workflows remains the biggest single reason why projects derail. Try harvesting data from two or more apps and the challenges soon mount up.
For one thing, many systems still lack a codeless iPaaS to expose their data. Another challenge comes from the fact that businesses don’t always use software the way authors intended, and this can lead to data tables with many omissions. Incomplete data makes matching and organizing data hard to get right.
Even when you can (1) access data, and (2) find it to be of a reasonable quality, there remains the constant challenges of managing sessions (to prevent them from timing out), and knowing what to do with the data once you’ve got it uploaded.
For more than a decade, there have been a variety of Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) products available to app developers that will ‘take care’ of data uploads, transformation and republishing tasks.
But any app developer knows, consuming data often requires a lot of pre and post processing, much of which has to happen server-side on a relational database platform like SQL. All these scripts become a critical ingredient of deployed applications, the hidden heroes of new digital transformation projects. After a while, they become invisible to users and administrators, cogs in the data processing machine that few people can see, or know exist.
And that’s a problem. Because, when you want to adapt or change your app, there’s a good chance you will need to go back a re-bake these logic rules. If the developers that built these scripts move on, that can leave your project in a mess.
One of the biggest shortcomings of low-code and no-code enterprise app platforms has been their inability to think of everything.
Every now and then, requirements come along that demand more than the collection of app building blocks provided by the provider. For business-critical apps, very often, in-house development teams have over the years found themselves having to rebuild low-code deployments with hi-code solutions on enterprise systems like Oracle, Salesforce, or SAP.
Until now that is.
Encanvas, one of the leading providers of no-code enterprise applications platforms, has this year introduced a new technology called HyperDrive.
HyperDrive is an agnostic data plug-in technology that enables app developers to ingest code, script, third-party data sources, algorithms, and app plug-ins and DLLs into its no-code integrated development environment (IDE)—all done without scripting and coding. Which is clever, but what makes HyperDrive cleverer still is that the Encanvas team has added data pre-processing and post-processing into its HyperDrive tool.
Screenshot of Encanvas HyperDrive functionality. The feature is built into the Encanvas Integrated Development Environment
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At Encanvas we have a passion for low-code / no-code (we like to say codeless) software development. We’ve been leading innovation in the enterprise rapid applications development (low-code / no-code / data mashups) industry since 2002.
Our enterprise digital transformation platform is used to design, deploy and run custom apps by uniquely blending application (aPaaS), integration (iPaaS), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and data mashup codeless software tools.
Encanvas brings agility and innovation to businesses. Used by data-driven organizations around the world, our platform evolves digitalization plans at the speed of light to maximize customer experience and minimize IT costs. Accelerate time to value of new applications as part of your digital transformation or data engineering program. Read the Encanvas Blog to learn more about what we do.
Encanvas announces the launch of HyperDrive, giving app designers the means to embed practically any data source or digital component into enterprise processes.
OXFORD-UK, 29th April 2021 – ENCANVAS today announced the release of HyperDrive™, an enhancement to its enterprise app platform designed to give businesses an adaptive digital ecosystem to bridge between existing back-office tools and front-end websites to improve customer self-service transparency and experience.
This move towards use of digital technologies to bring differentiating value to customers means companies have become app innovation factories. Demand is fuelling a growing Rapid Applications Development tech industry and Low-Code app development solutions estimated to reach 1$46.4 billion by 2026.
HyperDrive™ is a new feature we are now including in ENCANVAS/4 as an optional upgrade. It’s a Universal Data Plug that means third-party code, script, apps or data sources can be embedded into ENCANVAS’s building block app ecosystem. What makes HyperDrive™ special lies in the way it allows app designers to incorporate new digital tech painlessly into their designs. Furthermore, any data received by HyperDrive™ can be pre-processed within ENCANVAS’s design environment bringing transparency and enormous control over consumed data.
<h3> ENCANVAS/4 with HyperDrive™ is on general release from 1st May 2021.</h3>
To request a trial, go to: https://www.encanvas.com/get-the-app/
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1 – Report by KBV Research on the Global Low-Code Development Platform Market.
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Integration Platform-as-a-Service (ipaas) is a computing platform that equips enterprises with the ability to orchestrate machine-to-machine automations on-demand, usually employing codeless drag-and-drop tooling (most notable iPaaS examples include Encanvas, Redhat iPaaS and Mendix). Digital transformation projects often rely on a iPaaS technology ecosystem to design and deploy applications to automate back-office processes and streamline the customer experience.
Gartner defines iPaaS as – ‘ a suite of cloud services enabling development, execution, and governance of integration flows connecting any combination of on-premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications and data within individual or across multiple organizations. Gartner prefers to describe this market as ‘Integration software as a service (iSaaS)’ – packages that are cloud-based integration tools providing either prepackaged or easily configurable integration flows aimed at helping non-IT business users and even consumers to address simple application and data integration issues.
Against a background of digital transformations, IT leaders need to focus on revamping enterprise integration strategy, which will invariably involve the aggregation and management of data from a variety of computing platforms and applications. iPaaS solutions supply the necessary glue ware to easily design, deploy and operate machine-to-machine workflows. They offer simple deployment and operational flexibility at a lower cost of ownership to satisfy a broad range of data integration needs. Integration specialists like NDMC Consulting use iPaaS integration platforms to implement digital transformations in enterprise-scale businesses.
The term iPaaS should not be confused with independent Software as a Service (iSaaS) solutions. While a platform-as-a-service provisions the tooling needed to design, deploy and use applications, software-as-a-service solutions are the apps themselves, provisioned by software companies as a turnkey solution to fit a specific use case, task or automation.
An important business driver for integration services comes from the desire of executives to harvest data from across their enterprise in order to make informed decisions. The drive towards a data-driven culture demands that systems connect to one another. The integrity of data executives review, is a major sticking point.
A survey of 442 business executives around the world by Harvard Business Review found that corporate decision-makers have major concerns about access to, availability of, and quality of internal and outside data. The result is reduced confidence in their decision-making ability.
Moreover, nearly half of the global respondents said their lack of confidence stems from a lack of information or easy access to data. The findings are puzzling given the emergence of big data techniques, the proliferation of global networks and the sheer processing power contained even in mobile devices.
One reason for the disconnect between big data and decision-making, the Harvard researchers found, is that “silos of data, typically imprisoned in customer, financial, or production systems, are frequently inaccessible by individuals outside the functional group.”
In this regard:
Generally, iPaaS solutions are “deployment-model-agnostic” and offer integration capabilities irrespective of how the enterprise computing architecture has been modelled – be it on-premises and cloud deployments or as containerized middleware.
While iPaaS solutions are the most popular because of their rapid deployment, many businesses will choose instead to build their own hybrid solutions by bringing together a mix of third-party products and crafting their own solutions to mimic the capabilities that iPaaS solutions deliver out-of-the-box.
Cloud-based hybrid integration (and hybrid integration platforms like ipaas) is expected to account for at least 50 percent of new spend on middleware by the end of 2019 (not counting upgrades or license renewals on existing on-premise middleware).
In a recent Ovum report, Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a Cloud Platform for Hybrid Integration Vendor, 2019–20, they suggest the global iPaaS market will grow at a 59.7 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2018 and 2023, to US$10.2 billion.
Key capabilities of iPaaS solutions
Buyers would expect any iPaaS solution to offer:
The key characteristics of a hybrid integration platform include:
In addition to encanvas, iPaaS examples include:
Boomi
SnapLogic
TIBCO Software Inc.
Informatica Corporation
MuleSoft, Inc.
Fujitsu Ltd.
IBM Corporation
Microsoft Corp.
Moskitos
Adaptris
Oracle Corporation
Red Hat Inc.
Capgemini SE
SAP SE
Dell Inc.
Seeburger
WS02
Axway
Encanvas is an enterprise software company that specializes in iPaaS solutions and helping businesses to create above and beyond customer experiences.
From Low Code to Codeless
Better than code-lite and low-code, we created the first no code (codeless) enterprise application platform to release creative minds from the torture of having to code or script applications.
Use Encanvas in your software development lifecycle to remove the barrier between IT and the business. Coding and scripting is the biggest reason why software development has been traditionally unpredictable, costly and unable to produce best-fit software results. Encanvas uniquely automates coding and scripting. Our live wireframing approach means that business analysts can create the apps you need in workshops, working across the desk with users and stakeholders.
When it comes to creating apps to create a data culture and orchestrate your business model, there’s no simpler way to instal and operate your enterprise software platform than AppFabric. Every application you create on AppFabric adds yet more data to your single-version-of-the-truth data insights. That’s because, we’ve designed AppFabric to create awesome enterprise apps that use a common data management substrate, so you can architect and implement an enterprise master data management plan.
Encanvas supplies a private-cloud Customer Data Platform that equips businesses with the means to harvest their customer and commercial data from all sources, cleanse and organize it, and provide tooling to leverage its fullest value in a secure, regulated way. We provide a retrofittable solution that bridges across existing data repositories and cleanses and organizes data to present a useful data source. Then it goes on to make data available 24×7 in a regulated way to authorized internal stakeholders and third parties to ensure adherence to data protection and FCA regulatory standards.
Encanvas Secure and Live (‘Secure&Live’) is a High-Productivity application Platform-as-a-Service. It’s an enterprise applications software platform that equips businesses with the tools they need to design, deploy applications at low cost. It achieves this by removing coding and scripting tasks and the overheads of programming applications. Unlike its rivals, Encanvas Secure&Live is completely codeless (not just Low-Code), so it removes the barriers between IT and the business. Today, you just need to know that it’s the fastest (and safest) way to design, deploy and operate enterprise applications.
Learn more by visiting www.encanvas.com.
Erica Tomlin is a senior consultant specializing in helping organizational leadership teams to grow by implementing enterprise software platforms that improve data visibility, process agility; and organizational learning – creating an enterprise that learns and adapts faster. She writes on subjects of change management, organizational design, rapid development applications software, and data science. She can be contacted via her LinkedIn profile.
An application platform is a computing platform used to design, deploy and operate software applications. The best-known use case for application platform technologies is found in the enterprise (so-called ‘Enterprise Application Platform’). Encanvas Secure and Live (‘Secure&Live‘) is an example of an Application Platform.
To deliver their customer values and orchestrate their business processes, organizations much adopt application software to provide an interface between workers and computer systems (human-to-machine-interfacing-applications) and between computers (machine-to-machine-interfacing-applications). Perhaps unsurprisingly, some processes require both human and machine interfaces.
Since 2007, the enterprise computing industry has been progressively leveraging cloud computing technologies to make applications more accessible and available to user communities. The use of cloud hosting applications has made it possible for applications to serve markets and users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
One of the challenges of porting applications to the cloud has been the risk of data loss. Data security has become an increasing concern to organizations because of their greater reliance on data to continue business operations. Additionally, the increased compliance risks of processing personally identifiable information (PII) have made organizations more concerned about the security risks of cloud-deployed applications.
Nevertheless, most application platforms today are deployed on cloud computing platforms as an applications-Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS).
The need for greater agility in IT systems, together with the rising influence of operational departments on enterprise software buying decisions, has led to the rise in application platforms that allow non-programmers to author applications. So-called ‘Low-Code’ or ‘Codeless’ applications reduce or remove the need to see or use programming code or script in the design, deployment and operational phases of the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC).
Encanvas is an enterprise software company that specializes in helping businesses to create above and beyond customer experiences.
From Low Code to Codeless
Better than code-lite and low-code, we created the first codeless enterprise application platform to release creative minds from the torture of having to code or script applications.
Use Encanvas in your software development lifecycle to remove the barrier between IT and the business. Coding and scripting is the biggest reason why software development has been traditionally unpredictable, costly and unable to produce best-fit software results. Encanvas uniquely automates coding and scripting. Our live wireframing approach means that business analysts can create the apps you need in workshops, working across the desk with users and stakeholders.
When it comes to creating apps to create a data culture and orchestrate your business model, there’s no simpler way to instal and operate your enterprise software platform than AppFabric. Every application you create on AppFabric adds yet more data to your single-version-of-the-truth data insights. That’s because, we’ve designed AppFabric to create awesome enterprise apps that use a common data management substrate, so you can architect and implement an enterprise master data management plan.
Encanvas supplies a private-cloud Customer Data Platform that equips businesses with the means to harvest their customer and commercial data from all sources, cleanse and organize it, and provide tooling to leverage its fullest value in a secure, regulated way. We provide a retrofittable solution that bridges across existing data repositories and cleanses and organizes data to present a useful data source. Then it goes on to make data available 24×7 in a regulated way to authorized internal stakeholders and third parties to ensure adherence to data protection and FCA regulatory standards.
Encanvas Secure and Live (‘Secure&Live’) is a High-Productivity application Platform-as-a-Service. It’s an enterprise applications software platform that equips businesses with the tools they need to design, deploy applications at low cost. It achieves this by removing coding and scripting tasks and the overheads of programming applications. Unlike its rivals, Encanvas Secure&Live is completely codeless (not just Low-Code), so it removes the barriers between IT and the business. Today, you just need to know that it’s the fastest (and safest) way to design, deploy and operate enterprise applications.
Learn more by visiting www.encanvas.com.
Ian Tomlin is a management consultant and strategist specializing in helping organizational leadership teams to grow by telling their story, designing and orchestrating their business models, and making conversation with customers and communities. He serves on the management team of Encanvas and works as a virtual CMO and board adviser for tech companies in Europe, America and Canada. He can be contacted via his LinkedIn profile or follow him on Twitter.