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Ungerboeck Enhances Event Booking and Venue Management Tools with Flowgear Integration
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Ungerboeck.com, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor specializing in online booking and venue management for over 900 venues, faced a significant business challenge. The company needed to integrate its third-generation online booking and venue management product with multiple external systems. This integration required addressing three technical challenges. Firstly, the integrations needed to be built by a specialized team outside of their core development team. Secondly, it was crucial to ensure that the amount of custom code was kept to a minimum. Lastly, the company needed to select an integration solution that didn’t require a significant infrastructure investment. CTO Rob Scott embarked on a research journey to find the most suitable integration options.
About The Customer
Ungerboeck.com is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor specializing in online booking and venue management. The company provides services to over 900 venues, offering a third-generation online booking and venue management product. The company faced the challenge of integrating this product with multiple external systems, requiring a solution that could be implemented by a specialized team, minimize custom code, and avoid significant infrastructure investment. Ungerboeck.com's CTO, Rob Scott, led the search for an appropriate integration solution, ultimately selecting Flowgear for its developer-friendly and budget-friendly attributes.
The Solution
After evaluating ten solution vendors over several months, Ungerboeck.com chose Flowgear, an agile cloud integration platform, to pilot the integration project. Flowgear met the criteria of being developer-friendly and budget-friendly. As the pilot progressed, Flowgear provided other connectors that Ungerboeck.com needed, such as Amazon’s S3 storage service and Simple Queue Service (SQS). The integration team started with a proof-of-concept to get comfortable with the integration solution. With Flowgear’s customer support, they were able to resolve questions and issues quickly, and so the solution was extended. The integration workflows now in production include integrations on behalf of clients, integrations of internal applications via the company’s own API, and integrations that provide message queuing via Amazon SQS.
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