The popularity of integration platform as a service (iPaaS) started with a business
users wanting to gain control and share data among their increasing number of
SaaS apps without relying on IT. iPaaS is now being adopted by IT to support
business users to ensure security is being maintained and to provide more of a
self-service environment.
As iPaaS evolves to take a much bigger role than it originally addressed, it is
turning into a key part of crucial emerging use cases, such as:
1 Integration anywhere
2 Asynchronous messaging
3 API creation
4 Long-running people-based processes
5 Learning and acting on data made available through analytics tools