Section 3: Can You Afford to Skip Integration?

In the age of Amazon, customers expect fast, perfect and immediate fulfillment every time. Retailers cannot afford costly errors and delays resulting from performing key processes manually.

Selecting the Right Solution: Comparing Integration Approaches

To resolve these issues, businesses use a variety of integration methods to accomplish their goals. The three most popular options are as follows:

• Custom Integrations: For maximum control, some companies build custom integrations with either their internal IT resources or external consultants. Integrations can be built from the ground up to meet the company’s needs, but ongoing maintenance can be costly and slow.
• Point-to-Point Connectors: Pre-built integrations between key systems offer a cost-effective solution for businesses that do not require customization. However, reliability and quality of service vary between vendors, so selecting a solution that can scale with a company’s growth can be fraught with uncertainty.
• iPaaS: Integration platform-as-a-service (or “iPaaS”) can be used to integrate all types of data, such as cloud applications, on-premise servers, CSV files, EDI documents, and more. These platforms make it easy to build and manage integrations through tools and dashboards. A key differentiator between iPaaS solutions is whether they target technical or business users. Some make building and managing integrations accessible to nontechnical users, freeing up bandwidth for technical teams to focus on other impactful projects.

Businesses should invest time to figure out the approach that suits their current and future needs. In these digitally connected times, integrating the technology back-end has become even more important than sprucing up the front window, especially during the holiday rush.

Thousands of customers rely on Celigo’s leading integration platform to enable smoother, more efficient operations — while using fewer technical resources.

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• Connect anything to anything: storefronts, marketplaces, ERP, 3PL, EDI, WMS, returns, and so much more.
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Fast Time-to-Value

• Intuitive and powerful: up and running in hours and days, not months.
• Only iPaaS with prebuilt integration apps.
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• Built for technical professionals and business users.
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Contact Us for more information on getting your operations ready for the holiday with Celigo for your Business.