Alumio Erfahrungen

Integration solution - how it should be!

Kommentare: The Alumio team supports your project from start to finish. This is key. They rock!

Vorteile:

Alumio is one of the most flexible integration software out there. We have done a detailed comparison between Alumio and MuleSoft for HP inc. (global eCommerce supporting Adobe "Magento" Commerce). On all levels, Alumio and MuleSoft both scored very high - HP stated Alumio is a true Enterprise Software Integration Bus Solution. And this was the same when recommending using Alumio at Liverpool Football Club, who needed a flexible integration to their so what unknown ERP system. Alumio did the job without any issues.

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Every software solution has its own dos and don'ts. Nothing is perfect. And mostly depends on the business requirements and knowledge of your development team. Make sure there is the correct match and you are set for success. The software is as powerful as the knowledge of your team. It extends your team not the other way around.

Alumio's iPaaS for quick and cost-effective Future-proof Integrations.

Kommentare: We are using Alumio's iPaaS for a couple of years now. Our overall experience has been very good. We really like their experience in Digital Commerce in combination with a lot of ERPs. The iPaaS allows us to quickly integrate complex business processes. We especially like that we are 100% flexible, the monitoring and logging features are great, the API Plugins for SAP and Dynamics are creating great value for our customers and the pricing is very reasonable and 100% transparant for us and our customers. Alumio's pricing model allows partners, enterprise customers and SME Companies to be ready for Digital Growth!

Vorteile:

The API Plugins for SAP and Dynamics, in combination with the Integration Templates for Magento, Drupal, Commercetools, Adobe Marketo, Akeneo and Pimcore allow us to deliver fully integrated digital experience within a couple of weeks. Alumio's no-code integration platform delivers an easy-to-use Interface, which can be used by our technical project managers and juniors. This makes managing integrations incredible flexible and scalable. By implementation an iPaaS in the IT landscape of our customer, we ensure that they are compliant to privacy regulations, are ready for Future growth.

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Alumio chooses to have an user-interface which has limit drag-and-drop features to create integrations. We first missed this.... After using Alumio iPaaS for a couple of years now, we totally understand this approach and like it. It prevents a tangled web of graphical lines and give us ultimate flexibility.

Alumio best tool for integration.

Kommentare: Alumio allowed me to reach high percentages in relational terms, and digital commerce...

Vorteile:

What I liked most about this software is its ability to create integrations between systems...

Nachteile:

What I liked least is its cost, a bit expensive for those who discover it...

Making integrations easy and reproducible

Kommentare: Powerful tool, and a helpful team.

Vorteile:

We're able to quickly pull together data from different sources, pushing it out into various channels. It removes many complexities of integrating, doing the heavy lifting. It gives insight, control, and can be handed over between team members.

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There is a bit of a learning curve although that is hardly unexpected with iPaas tools. Once we understood the features and functionalities we were good to go.

Helping push boundaries in eCommerce in a scalable, flexible and future-proof

Kommentare: Alumio makes it easy for ShopWorks' customers to integrate with ERP, PIM, CRM systems and just about any other software for digital growth. Apart from enabling the creation and management of integrations via a user-friendly interface, without any custom code, Alumio also makes it easy to interchange software without disrupting business continuity or data integrity. The in-built Monitoring and Logging features are great at detecting and helping resolve integration errors, and the platform features offer the flexibility to modify integrations as per business needs. Last but not least, Alumio makes it possible for ShopWorks customers to centralize all data across integrations in one central hub, which ensures better security and compliance.

Vorteile:

The convenience of being able to add, remove or replace software via a user-friendly interface, without any code and without any loss of data integrity, ensures faster time to market. The centralization and data normalization of all integrations, helps prevent data silos and give you full control over data. By caching data on its cloud-based streaming service, Alumio keeps integrations running regardless of system crashes. What's more, to improve eCommerce integrations with ERP systems, Alumio also offers special API Plugins for certain ERPs to install lacking web services that improve their eCommerce integrations.

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Being a no-code integration platform designed to make integrations easy enough for Junior Developers or Data Experts to manage, via a user-friendly interface, Alumio's iPaaS also offers a wide array of complex features and tools to allow Senior developers the flexibility to create custom integrations. This can present quite the learning curve when using Alumio's iPaaS, requiring users to spend some time to discover the best way that Alumio works for their unique business case. If you skip the onboarding demo or detailed tutorials shared by Alumio, it could take you a while to become adept at managing integrations via the Alumio iPaaS.

Software that allows you to focus on the important part: Business Logic

Kommentare: Integrations are a complex subject. A lot of work a developer would do on an integration is 'bootstrapping' - almost superfluous work that would be mostly the same for every implementation. However, since every system you're connecting to might just be slightly different, it's really hard to automate the process or reuse your work. Take even something like authorization: most APIs use a header 'bearer' token, but some don't put their authorization in a header but in the query string. Or use a complicated Oauth system with FIVE DIFFERENT KEYS (looking at you, Akeneo). For the end-user, all of this is just "radio static". They - rightly - don't care. But before we used Alumio, about half of our developer's time was wasted on this 'bootstrapping' of integrations. Alumio supports just about everything out of the box, meaning that we save time on this bootstrapping. Meaning we can use our time on the really important part of integrations: Business Logic. The UI of Alumio allows easy access (and possible creation of-) to integrations, meaning it is easy to 'see' what is happening with the data within an integration. This is great for both our (technical) consultants as well as developers. Especially if you haven't made an integration yourself, it can be extremely difficult to understand - but Alumio makes this alot easier. Overall, we are extremely happy with Alumio. Alumio allows us to help our customers grow, and allows us to focus on the really important parts of integrations

Vorteile:

The User Interface: for many connections/integrations, we don't have to call for a developer. Our non-developers can create & maintain these integrations. The amazing UI (with features like saving testdata and running tests on smaller transformers) and build-in transformation options are the reason for this. The complexity: It's a fine balance to find how complex (and therefore difficult) a low-code platform should be. But integrations ARE complex, so limiting user options within the interface might make life easier but it would also limit what integrations could be made by non-developers. Alumio strikes the perfect balance - for most integrations, I do not need to write any code. Bug-free: After a little over a year of working with Alumio, I've found just ONE bug. And that one was fixed within a month after I found it. That's a pretty amazing feat.

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Documentation: Like all new products, documentation is both critical and one of the hardest parts to do right. Documentation (both in 'user guide' form and within the UI itself) is unfortunately still lacklustre. However, it's clear Alumio has focussed on this issue and is making headway.

Enhancing our integration capabilities with Alumio's iPaaS & SAP API Plugin

Kommentare: Apart from helping us seamlessly integrate our SAP ECC to Magento/ Adobe Commerce, Alumio also presented us with their great SAP API Plugin solution. The API Plugin helped easily install API points that SAP ECC lacked, which helped significantly improve its integration capabilities. Alumio's user-friendly interface and integration features make managing or modifying the integration easy and intuitive, and the strong Monitoring and Logging system makes it easy to detect integration errors.

Vorteile:

Alumio's user-friendly interface makes it accessible for even non-developers to manage integrations without any code, reducing dependency on senior developers. Its Monitoring and Logging system doesn't just help you keep a detailed track of your integration, but it also helps detect API conflicts and integration errors quickly. Alumio’s iPaaS also offers caching capabilities that protect our integrations from inefficient data flows, and it also offers automatic reactivation procedures to restart the data flows after an integration error or system crash. What's more, Alumio also offers system-specific specialized solutions like an SAP API Plugin that helped install API points that SAP ECC was lacking for improved integration capabilities.

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Getting well-acquainted with all of the extensive features of Alumio's iPaaS may require you to go through a bunch of tutorials or reach out to Support. However, Alumio does offer plenty of educational or training resources to help flatten the learning curve.

Great and flexible solution

Kommentare: For us this solution really works well in complex B2B E-Commerce integrations where performance, realtime stock information, and such are important.For one customer we use Alumio to integrate all their systems:- Dynamics 365- Power BI- Zendesk- Wise WMS- Slim4- Shopware- InriverBut also customer ended integrations based on UBL and OCI/cXML standards.

Vorteile:

There are 2 features that really set this solution apart from similar solutions in this price range. The HTTP proxy solution, to transform a request and response between 2 systems.Caching & Storage, this in combination with the HTTP proxy solutions makes it also very performant because you can cache calls and data to minimize load on external systems like an ERP.

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The UI and UX are something that could you use some effort. Although you get used to it, solutions like Zapier and N8N have a more user friendly UI that makes it easier to view your integrations and expand them.But they are working on that, Alumio is more of a developer minded tool that is being upgraded now on a UI and UX level.

Our business seamlessly touches base with the Alumio solution everyday.

Kommentare: The awesome team and software of Alumio helps ColorHub grow even more without lying awake over integrating with some big prospects rusty ERP. Just send us the API credentials and we'll manage :)

Vorteile:

ColorHub enables online focussed brands to launch their private label paint without dirty hands. Alumio enables us to do everything that is needed to send colorful packages to the endclient without this person knowing that it is ColorHub doing all the work. Alumio is the linking party between the ERP, carrier and ecommerce platform. When doing dropshipping for several parties, each with their own specific paint colors and labels on the can all data needs to be accurate and transformed to the same trusted structure. That's where Alumio really shines. More over: - It's a scalable solution in terms of number of integrations, reporting, monitoring, managing of integrations and just sheer calculating power. - Alumio offers a secure solution that makes you able to be GDPR compliant and reduce risk - There is a great support team helping you out with any glitch in the running software or question during the built of your integration

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Nothing much, just some nice to haves: - Being able to publish statistics to a public dashboard (valuable for any hands on team) - We would love to be able to offer a whitelabel endpoint for sending orders showing our own domain

Easy to use platform with a short Time to Market

Kommentare: With Alumio we are able to standarize all connection with platform in one place, resulting in a stable solution for our customers and 1 system to maintain and control all data flow between different platforms. With this solution you don't have to invest in inffrastrucure on your own if you grow your data flows.

Vorteile:

The software makes it possible to shorten the time to market for my clients. The ease of setting up connection integrations with Alumio in 1 standard way and without maintaining different code for every client.

Nachteile:

As a developer you have to get used to working with Alumio instead of code because of the way Alumio is set up (easy and standard data models)

Best way to manage backoffice integrations, low TCO

Vorteile:

Alumio's iPaaS solution makes sense for business that are looking for a quick and easy way to clean up integrations between their commerce engine and any backoffice system. It provides a clear view and path for data flows and eliminates the need for dev hours from numerous teams in charge of numerous backoffice systems (ERP, PIM, OMS, etc). Time to market is quick, you can manage it on your own or simply with your ecommerce managed services provider and when you factor time/cost to market vs Middleware options out there today, the choice is very easy for most usecases

Nachteile:

Like most solutions, there is a learning curve in getting to a ''manage it all yourself'' state. Shouldn't be an issue for a mid level dev individual or team.

Alumio as the iPaaS for eCommerce architectures

Kommentare: We, as an e-commerce integration partner, are responsible for building the best and most future-proof architectures for our clients. Tools like Alumio fit perfectly into this vision and enable us to meet our goals.

Vorteile:

Alumio improves the overall flexibility of your architecture & simplifies future growth. It makes it easier to add best-of-breed tools to your toolset. The backend gives you a clear insight into the tasks going through the integration layer. The detailed logging makes it easy to debug errors and to react fast to errors.

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The learning curve is quite steep, even for technical profiles. A drag & drop interface could improve this over time. Some functionalities are still missing, however, Alumio is open to feedback & has an active development roadmap. Once the integrations get more complex, the transformers might get hard to read.

Best integration experiemce

Kommentare: Alumio team was more than cooperative and helpful! They helped with training and provided great documentation as well as consultation around our specific and custom integration needs.

Vorteile:

The software was easy to learn and work with. We were able to work with the Alumio team on strategy and project planning for our complex integration needs and apply them rather quickly and efficiently. Our team was easily brought on board as well as the client, the learning curve was not too steep and since there is hardly in coding knowledge needed, it was very straight forward. The big thing was - it worked! A clean, perfect solution for something that otherwise would have taken much more and much longer to implement.

Nachteile:

There is a bit of a learning curve but as expected of any new platform implementation.

Review of Alumio, used for e-commerce integrations

Kommentare: We created a complexly flexible integration between e-commerce systems like Shopware, Magento which we connected to PIM systems (like Akeneo) and ERP systems running on Microsoft, SAP or Exact technology. The benefit is the ease to do adjustments to running data routes. It is stable, and does not require any maintenance.

Vorteile:

We are able to do integrations faster because of the integration templates. Also there is no server maintenance anymore, which makes it easier to maintain. Previously a lot of integrations were scripted, and lacked documentation. The integrations in Alumio are easier to 'read' and changed when needed. The set-up is scalable without the need of technical knowledge from our side.

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Alumio requires some knowledge of json structure, and analytical view is required to set-up a good route.

An Efficient, Timely, and Easy-to-use platform

Kommentare: I use Alumio to integrate Shopify Plus with Microsoft Dynamics for my side business. As I work full time, I don't have the time to overlook all the integration details all the time. Alumio's user-friendly interface helps me automate a lot of the processes, making it easy for me to manage and monitor my integration all by myself.
I never imagined it would be this easy and fast to set up an integration to help realize my business idea.

Vorteile:

Creating integrations with Alumio is significantly easier to set up and more future-proof than other integration platforms that I looked at, owing to its user-friendly interface. From the automated monitoring and logging provided to help detect integration errors, to the variety of integration tools provided to modify integrations, the platform really takes into account everything you need to create integrations in a flexible and scalable way.

Nachteile:

I think you still need at least admin-level IT skills to utilize Alumio, which wasn’t a problem for me but maybe businesses that are completely new to integrations may go through a learning curve.

Alumio, way to go

Vorteile:

It allows us to create better interfaces for our customers. We get more insights on data transfered and can focus on extending the software landscape of the customer via one central platform.

Nachteile:

The amount of usefull templates could be improved. In addition having more templates available should have a different pricing model.

Long term Benefits of Alumio’s iPaaS

Kommentare: Very good! Super team with strong abilities. This tool helps us to deliver best of breed solutions to our customers.

Vorteile:

The strong features, but mostly the support from the team.

Nachteile:

The pace of developing new features and (out of the box) integrations can always be faster than it is now.

Easy to use, easy to integrate

Vorteile:

API editor makes it easy for businesses to set up and manage their integrations without requiring extensive coding skills or expertise. Tons of pre-built integrations. Data safety and security.

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Limited support for legacy systems. Learning curve.

Alumio is filling the missing link in our service portfolio.

Vorteile:

The most powerful aspect of Alumio is the ability for a technical advisor to set up and maintain an interface between Odoo and other systems. Previously, we were dependent on cheaper standard interfaces that did not meet our needs or were very expensive and difficult to maintain custom software. With Alumio we can bridge the cap between those extremes without using scarce development resources.

Nachteile:

Due to the overwhelming possibilities, a learning curve from Alumio is required. But with the excellent support of Alumio, this learning curve can be very steap.

Alumio helps accelerating Shopware merchants

Kommentare: When you pass the learning curve the pieces of the puzzle fall in place. It reduces complexity because no coding is required. The Alumio team was very helpful supporting me in setting up the initial integration.

Vorteile:

The e-commerce focus and the integration capabilities with Shopware (both 5 and 6).

Nachteile:

It takes some time to understand the components and how they tie into each other.

Integration of ecommerce platforms with complex ERP, WMS, PIM made easier

Kommentare: Especially when complex data structures with various ERP, WMS, PIM, DAM etc. have to be integrated with ecommerce platforms like Shopware and Magento, Alumio can be an interesting alternative to direct connectors. Especially for H1 clients in the B2B sector we consider Alumio a very good solution.

Vorteile:

Native connectors to for instance ERP systems like Navision, Dynamics etc. help to have less complex and smoother projects for H1 Webdevelopment customers.

Nachteile:

Webdevelopers often like their efficient homebrew code which seems sometimes a bit more straightforward. It takes some time to convince senior devs to use a platform like Alumio.

If you want to be flexible, use Alumio

Kommentare: Nice and friendly club that always wants to think along. In addition, as mentioned earlier, it is wise for the future of our customers (online retailers) to adopt such a solution.

Vorteile:

It is way more scalable and flexible than just API connections. It is likely that a company get bigger and there will be more software solutions. It is much easier to connect all those systems with an iPaas.

Nachteile:

Despite being efficient, it still needs to be paired. It is not just a mapping solution, specialist knowledge is required.