In-Depth CRM Review

Kapow Katalyst™

Kapow Software, Inc.
260 Sheridan Avenue
Suite 420
Palo Alto, CA 94306-2063

Telephone: (650) 646-6000
Toll Free: (800) 805-0828
Fax: (650) 330-1062
Email: Contact Kapow
Web: http://kapowsoftware.com/

CRM Category: Enterprise Support – Cloud
Sub-Category: Application Integration
Seats: Small Enterprise

About the Company:

Kapow Software — the self-service automation and integration company

Always On. Always Connected.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA with offices in New York, Austin, Frankfurt, and Copenhagen, we are a next-generation enterprise company that, owing to the reliability and accessibility of our platform, enjoys unusually high customer satisfaction. Our team includes people with strong expertise and deep experience in diverse areas: service oriented architectures, visual programming, enterprise integration, business intelligence, mobile, and more. And our strategic partnerships ally us with some the world’s leading system integrators, solution providers, and technology partners.

Our Customers

It’s a wide spectrum of names. On one end: Fortune 500 enterprises with whopping data-processing requirements and huge amounts of integration: Audi, Intel, Bank of America, Fiserv, Deutsche Telekom and many more. On the other end are web-native brands growing vigorously in all the online spaces: personal finance, business networking, travel, talent management, recruiting and more.

Our Platform

Kapow Katalyst™ is the only platform for real-time application integration and automation, self-serviced and delivered to business users via Kapow Kapplets™ – instantly deployable lightweight apps from the desktop to every corner of the enterprise. Hundreds of leading companies have used Kapow Software to transform themselves into integrated, automated, agile, real-time enterprises; “always on, always connected.”

You’ll use our platform to integrate, automate and migrate all data and applications inside the enterprise, in the cloud and on the web.

You’ll harvest and integrate Big Data from any Web-based source, automate business processes, synchronize data with the cloud, connect legacy to cloud applications, integrate partners to your supply chain, and enhance search results with new data sources — all in real time, free from reliance on coding or consulting. And with Kapplets you’ll extend the power of the Katalyst platform to desktops and mobile devices by exposing workflows and integrations as lightweight apps for running and managing thousands of automations and integrations any time and with any input parameter. As more and more Kapplets are created instantly across the company, the rapidly-growing collection evolves into an enterprise AppStore where all employees share them, modify them, and request new ones.

With Katalyst and Kapplets your new integrations and automations will promote game-changing results that stimulate growth and drive profitability. You’ll prototype new ideas in hours, not weeks; get to market faster; capture more share; become more competitive; and use the leverage of your real-time network to differentiate products and services ahead of the curve.

Kapow Software takes a disruptive approach to a simple proposition: in a high-velocity world where everything is converging — mobile, social, cloud and Big Data — the best companies are fully integrated and automated across all workflows, resources and relationships, both inside the company and out. Our approach: you don’t need consultants, costly coding, or lots of time to get there.

You can get there today, on your own, with our software.

By turning business-process flows into immediate, executable software automation code, we’ve created a new and immediate way of accessing data, particularly the hard-to-get data that sits behind apps with no APIs. Couple this with our ability to connect applications not meant to be connected and you’ve got a new-generation advantage: self-enabled automation and integration uniquely capable of driving innovation.

We do all this not a moment too soon because disconnects are costing you; those gaps in automations and integrations that threaten the structural and functional integrity of your enterprise. In fragmenting what should be a seamless ecosystem of people, data, applications, processes, customers and partners, disconnects are costing you in time, assets, money and more: lost market share, lost customers, lost efficiencies and lost deals. We eliminate these disconnects right out of the box.

About the Product:

Integrate Disparate Applications and Data Sources

Kapow Katalyst™ provides an agile and practical way to deliver Big Data integration solutions. Katalyst supports a variety of data sources – ranging from structured to unstructured – residing in databases, standard APIs, file and email systems, web applications, on-premise and cloud applications, and content management systems.

If you can see it, you can integrate it. It’s that simple.

The main components of Katalyst are Design Studio, used to create integration workflows (also known as robots); Management Console, used to deploy workflows, manage, schedule, and monitor the environment; and Roboservers, the cluster-ready 24/7 environment where workflows are run.

Build Workflows with Kapow Katalyst Design Studio

Kapow Katalyst Design Studio is a visual, fully integrated development environment (IDE). It combines the real-time visual paradigm of a web browser with an intuitive visual flow editor. You easily build integration workflows by navigating an application or data source as you would in a web browser, excel spreadsheet or by using the powerful XML editor.

Kapow Katalyst Design Studio supports rapid, point-and-click creation of Data integration workflows
As Design Studio works with live data, you can instantly verify that the data is formatted correctly and business rules are applied properly.

Publish & Govern with Katalyst Management Console

Once built, integration workflows are uploaded to the Kapow Katalyst Management Console. From here, you can schedule them for batch or on-demand execution or publish them directly to your business user as Kapplets. To optimize performance and deliver data faster to the business user, you can compose Kapplets to run multiple workflows in parallel.

The Management Console governs the functions of the Kapow Enterprise platform. Role-based administration allows secure, granular control over integration projects, access rights, and viewing of workflow results. Administrators can define user access to Kapplets using LDAP or Active Directory. The Management Console also deploys workflows as REST/SOAP web services, workflows for integration with data endpoints such as documents, email, SQL and Hadoop databases, and it automatically creates the APIs needed to be consumed by, Java, .NET, or BI tools.

Once built, workflows are uploaded to a shared repository in the Management Console. From here, they can be scheduled for batch-execution on the RoboServer or executed on-demand via an automatically generated REST service.

Scalable, Robust Environment

The Roboserver operational environment can be easily configured for optimal performance and scalability. A stateless, multi-threaded architecture enables enterprises to easily scale their on-premise, cloud or virtual deployments to meet business data needs. When a new roboserver is added to a roboserver cluster, it automatically inherits the settings of that cluster, making it very easy to add new roboservers to the production environment.

Multiple robots can be executed sequentially or concurrently to optimize performance. Kapplets can also be composed of multiple robots which can be executed concurrently when the Kapplet is run.

RoboServer has a secure API, supporting authentication and SSL. In addition, security settings for managing file system access on roboservers prevent unauthorized access to production server local file systems and commands.

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