Technology Magazine February 2020 | Page 46

WHAT INSPIRED THE MODULAR APPROACH THAT SNAPLOGIC TAKES ?
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES TO IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATION ?
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WHAT INSPIRED THE MODULAR APPROACH THAT SNAPLOGIC TAKES ?
It really came out of unfinished business . I ’ ve been in the data business for two decades . My past company , Informatica , was very successful in the 90s and helped enterprises move from the mainframe to client servers . With SnapLogic , we saw that there were so many new things happening with browsers , with user experience and the utility of smart phones . We thought that if we could take that technology and bring it to a whole new level of usability ,
of self-service , then we could really change the issue of integration and we have done so .
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES TO IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATION ?
One of the biggest challenges to implementing automation comes from simply getting a hold of the end points in an enterprise . Outside of an
enterprise , it almost feels prehistoric that you can ’ t just connect things together , because we ’ re so used to connecting them in the consumer
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