Integration provider MuleSoft has entered the cloud integration race with the launch of Mule iON SaaS Edition, designed for instant Software as a Service (SaaS) integration in the cloud. The new service competes with established players Informatica Cloud and Dell Boomi. The Mule iON integration platform as a service connects across cloud-based applications and also connects SaaS to on-premise applications.
MuleSoft's Anypoint™ technology for on-demand API connectivity eliminates the need for custom point-to-point code. With Mule iON SaaS Edition, SaaS vendors can focus on scaling their core business instead of spending time and money on custom integration, resulting in shorter sales cycles, faster implementations, lower support costs, higher customer satisfaction and renewals. Today, MuleSoft also unveiled a new QuickStart Plan for fast growth SaaS vendors and systems integrators (SIs) that enables them to build their own revenue-generating integration apps on the Mule iON cloud platform in just a few days.
Features of Mule iON SaaS Edition Mule iON SaaS Edition enables SaaS vendors and SIs to build and offer new packaged cloud integration apps that automate business processes across applications. New features available with Mule iON SaaS Edition include:
- Graphical data mapping and transformation capabilities - enables SaaS vendors and SIs to build and deploy integration apps without writing custom code by using the Mule Studio drag-and-drop interface
- Cloud Connector ToolKit - makes it easy to create new cloud connectors in Mule Studio for any public or private Web API
- Customer Self-service Portals - allows SaaS end user customers to independently manage integrations, minimizing dependency on developers and reducing support calls
- SaaS Operations Center- provides complete visibility into end user environments with a multi-tenant portal to monitor, manage and maintain integration apps, including:
- Operational dashboards: deliver better customer support with live integration status and performance metrics
- Real-time notifications: meet availability requirements and improve service level agreements (SLAs) with immediate notifications for events or performance issues as they occur
- Proactive alerts: reduce support calls by proactively monitoring and addressing issues before they impact customers
New Integration Apps for Mule iON SaaS Edition In addition to these new features, Mule iON SaaS Edition introduces a gallery of over 20 easy-to-install, packaged integration apps and over 100 Cloud Connectors to quickly and easily accomplish the most common integration use cases, including:
- Data integration and data loading - move batch data and flat files between systems, ensuring correct data formats and field mappings
- API enablement - create and host open REST APIs as composites of legacy APIs (e.g., SOAP) and other data sources
- Process orchestration - integrate and automate business processes that span multiple applications, in the cloud or on-premise
- Composite and mobile applications - create new end user applications from multiple underlying applications and data sources
New QuickStart Plan for Fast Growth SaaS Vendors and SIs MuleSoft also unveiled a new partner program for fast growth SaaS vendors and SIs that enables them to build and deploy their own revenue-generating cloud integration apps in just a few days. The QuickStart Plan includes:
- Full access to the Mule iON SaaS Edition platform
- Live developer training
- MuleSoft certification of one integration app
- Premiere Partner support
- Up to 20 end-customer production tenants of the integration app included in one flat annual sign-up fee
