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Cast Iron Systems Introduces Cast Iron Cloud(TM) -- The Next Generation of Software as a Service Integration
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, October 16 / MARKET WIRE/ --
Cast Iron Systems,
the #1
SaaS integration company, introduces Cast Iron Cloud (TM), the future of Software as a
Service integration, today. Only Cast Iron offers the choice of a
completely cloud-based integration service or an on-premise integration
appliance as an organization's application ecosystem evolves. Now any
organization, regardless of size or resources, can rapidly connect SaaS
solutions with other on-demand and on-premise applications, immediately
boosting productivity.
"Productive SaaS deployments don't operate in a vacuum," said Ken Com?e,
CEO and president of Cast Iron Systems. "Companies must be able to
efficiently integrate SaaS solutions with other enterprise systems to
effectively orchestrate cross-functional business processes. By delivering
our integration solution in the Cast Iron Cloud, or via our on-premise
appliances, we can provide organizations with a seamless and secure
transition between on-demand and on-premise environments."
As SaaS usage expands from departmental silos into the extended enterprise,
integration of data and applications is even more critical to productivity
and success. Cast Iron and its partners can now deliver the most widely
used solution for connecting SaaS and enterprise applications through the
simplicity and speed of Integration as a Service (IaaS).
The Cast Iron Cloud leverages the company's unique ability to deliver
completed integration projects in just days and also eliminates the need
for customers to invest in integration infrastructure or deep middleware
expertise.
Partners Endorse Cast Iron Offering
"Our customers have been very successful using Cast Iron to bring Force.com
and Salesforce CRM into their IT environments," said Ariel Kelman, senior
director of platform product marketing at salesforce.com. "With Cast Iron
integration solutions available on the Force.com AppExchange, small
businesses and large enterprises alike tell us that Cast Iron gives them
great time to value for their integration projects."
"Given the growing number of vertical solutions built on NS-BOS for
NetSuite, as well as the increasing sophistication of our customer base, we
wanted to provide our customers and partners options on how to connect to
specific vertical and legacy systems," said Mini Peiris, NetSuite's vice
president of product marketing. "With built-in connectivity to NetSuite
solutions and the flexibility to deliver integration in the cloud or using
an appliance, Cast Iron accelerates adoption of our ERP, ecommerce, and CRM
suite."
Industry Analysts Endorse Cast Iron Offering
Leading analyst firms Saugatuck Technology and Gartner explain the
importance of this announcement for both SaaS users and providers.
Analyst Michael West of Saugatuck Technology summarizes: "To take advantage
of SaaS at an enterprise level, users must have access to broad, deep, and
sophisticated integration capabilities. Requirements for integration could
stifle effective and efficient enterprise-wide deployment of SaaS unless
SaaS providers commit to delivering more and better enterprise-ready
integration solutions."
According to Gartner, "An analysis of a cross-section of successful SaaS
vendors reveals that business-to-business (B2B) flexibility -- rather than
any one B2B standard or approach -- lowers barriers to SaaS integration and
helps drive SaaS adoption. The diversity of SaaS integration solutions from
SaaS vendors is good because it gives customers more options to solve their
diverse integration requirements."*
By offering its SaaS integration solution in the cloud and on-premise, Cast
Iron is anticipating these diverse end-to-end application integration
needs, including data cleansing and migration, and application integration
by offering intelligent connections, data transformations, process
workflow, monitoring and management, plus guaranteed delivery of all data.
*Gartner, Inc., "Seeding the Cloud: B2B Flexibility Drives SaaS Adoption,"
by Benoit J. Lheureux, October 1, 2008.
Customers Endorse Cast Iron Cloud
Extra Space Storage Inc. (NYSE: EXR), the second-largest self storage
company in the United States, is using the Cast Iron Cloud to integrate
salesforce.com with its on-demand ERP system giving its call-center agents
and management complete visibility into the company's platform of 673
self-storage properties in real-time.
"Our projects have short implementation trajectories," said Bill Hoban, CIO
of Extra Space Storage, "and the Cast Iron Cloud gives us the integration
speed and agility we need and enables us to focus on our core competencies
rather than on plumbing. This increases our productivity across the board."
Cast Iron is transforming the integration experience using the Cast Iron
Cloud. The company is introducing a cloud-based library of pre-configured
Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common SaaS business
processes. Cast Iron has created these templates based on its experience
with thousands of customer integrations. For example, if customers need to
integrate two SaaS applications, they simply search Cast Iron's cloud-based
library of TIPs, choose the TIP that matches their scenario, and deploy it
to the Cast Iron Cloud. In minutes, their SaaS integration project goes
live rather than taking weeks or even months to develop using custom code.
In addition, SaaS integrations can be monitored from anywhere, anytime
using the Cast Iron Cloud.
For companies that want to customize TIPs based on their specific
requirements, Cast Iron is providing a self-guided wizard similar to the
simple wizard-based experience in popular products like Intuit TurboTax.
Users answer a few questions based on the specific situation, and the
integration process is automatically customized to expedite SaaS
integration and adoption.
About Cast Iron Systems
Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The #1 SaaS Integration Company(TM).
With thousands of customer integrations across all industries and around
the world, including Allianz, British American Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource
Bergen, Emerson, IBA Molecular, Krueger International, Peet's Coffee & Tea,
PGP Corporation, Salesforce.com, The Sports Authority, and Tesla Motors,
among many others, companies are benefiting from the simplicity, speed, and
flexibility of the Cast Iron integration solution to integrating SaaS with
the enterprise in just days. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture
Partners, and Lehman Brothers, Cast Iron is privately held and led by
experienced technology executives from Informatica, Oracle, PeopleSoft,
Siebel, Vitria, and webMethods. For more information about Cast Iron,
please visit www.castiron.com.
Cast Iron, the Cast Iron logo, Cast Iron Cloud, Cast Iron Integration
Appliance, and Cast Iron Integration Solution are registered trademarks of
Cast Iron Systems in the United States and worldwide. All rights reserved.
Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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