Introduction

Alumio is an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) that provides a user-friendly environment for connecting various systems such as ERPs, CRMs, and other third-party services. It facilitates both real-time as well as asynchronous data integration, ensuring that all connected channels receive accurate and up-to-date information on entities like products, customers, logistics, and finance.

Although it's possible to use code to customize an instance of Alumio, in principle it is a no-code platform that can be used without writing code.

There are three main advantages to using an iPaaS compared to custom implementations:

• Comprehensive logging & alerting can be prohibitively expensive to build in custom implementations. An iPaaS like Alumio offers extensive transparancy of the processes, logging & alerts.
• Due to the non-coding nature, the actual actions taken within the processes are not obscured as they generally are within code. It's therefore much easier to debug and understand configurations created by others.
• With enough experience with Alumio, you can build complex integrations much faster than you would've been able by writing custom code. Much of the 'scaffolding' work is already done by the iPaaS.

Alumio utilizes an Incoming-Route-Outgoing architecture. In short:

1. An Incoming retrieves a dataset
2. A Route attaches an Incoming to an Outgoing & splits the dataset into different Tasks
3. An Outgoing executes the Task

In all steps, it is possible to use Entity Transformers to manipulate the data.