Well-funded data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is adding new and updated integration modules for Workday Inc., NetSuite Inc. and Amazon Web Services’ Redshift.

In its latest release of its SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud, the company also added support for real-time data streams based on Confluent Inc.’s distribution of the Apache Kafka messaging protocol.

Co-founded by Guarav Dhillon, the entrepreneur who also co-founded data integration giant Informatica Corp., SnapLogic sells an enterprise integration platform-as-a-service that supports a library of more than 400 connectors – or “Snaps” – that automate the process of connecting data from multiple sources into integrated applications. The company says it can automate on a drag-and-drop basis integration tasks that can consume hours of a data scientist’s time. SnapLogic is one of the hottest players in a suddenly vibrant data integration market, having raised more than $136 million in funding.

The company previously supported the pure open-source version of Kafka, but “customers are looking for an enterprise version because they like the structure, support, usability, security and resiliency of Confluent,” said Craig Stewart, vice president of product management.

New in the Winter 2017 release are the following:

• An enhanced Workday Read Snap simplifies Workday output formatting for consumption by downstream systems.
• New Snaps enable asynchronous data processing for NetSuite, including Async Upsert, Async Search, Async Delete List, Async GetList, Check Async Status and GetAsync Result Operations Support.
• Users can execute multiple Redshift commands in one Snap, making Redshift data pipelines easier to create and manage.
• A new Snap Pack for Confluent allows publication and use of real-time data streams based on Confluent’s Kafka distribution.
• Expanded support for Teradata Corp.’s TPT include load and update operations, as well as export data to Hadoop clusters.
• Users can now search and filter across thousands of data pipelines, accounts and files within a project or across an organization using text-based indexing.
• Password security has been strengthened and streaming performance improved when writing to Amazon S3 storage.

“The demand for Workday, NetSuite and Redshift continue to be our bread and butter,” Stewart said. “The complexity of Workday deployments are such that even Workday has had to provide integration for its customers, but we’re finding that they still don’t give customers the broad range of connectivity with all the other apps they use in the cloud as well as on-premise.”

The company sells bundles of snaps by usage tiers on a subscription basis. Enterprise pricing starts at $10,000 per month.

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