Unified API vs embedded iPaaS: a look at their key differences
Welcome to another edition of the Integration Insider—a weekly newsletter that provides the insights you need to build, maintain, and manage product integrations successfully. Today, we're breaking down a topic that prospects often ask about—how unified API platforms compare with embedded iPaaS vendors. You can continue reading here or on our blog to see how the two types of platforms stack up!
As you look at 3rd-parties to help scale your product integrations, you’re likely choosing between two types of software: a unified API solution and an embedded integration platform as a service (iPaaS).?
We’ll help you evaluate the two by defining each, outlining their respective pros and cons, and comparing them.
Overview on unified APIs
A unified API is an aggregated API that lets you connect your product to multiple software providers in a specific category, such as a CRM or an HRIS.
Here are just some of the benefits a unified API platform can provide (note: Merge addresses each of them while other unified API vendors may only address some, if any):
Here are some of the issues you might come across in unified API solutions (note: these don’t apply to Merge):
Overview on embedded iPaaS solutions
An embedded iPaaS solution is a 3rd-party, cloud-based, integration platform that allows you to embed its platform directly into your product.
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Here are, generally speaking, their benefits:
Here are some of their weaknesses:
Having trouble making sense of their differences and respective strengths and weaknesses? We’ll provide a concise comparison in the following section.
Embedded iPaaS versus unified API
The two solutions offer fundamentally different approaches to product integrations. A unified API platform is geared towards helping organizations deliver a high volume of category-specific integrations to market quickly; while an embedded iPaaS is focused on helping organizations deliver one integration at a time.?
Offer best-in-class integrations with Merge
Merge, the leading unified API platform, neatly addresses all of the benefits of unified API platforms while avoiding the aforementioned drawbacks.
Learn how we help thousands of organizations—like Navan , Ramp , and Drata —use product integrations to move upmarket, differentiate their platform, increase customer retention, and more by scheduling a demo with one of our integration experts . You can also test drive Merge at your leisure by creating a free account .
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