Enabling the Next Era of Enterprise Architecture (Redpoint on Workato)

Redpoint’s post on its investment in Workato, the integration and automation platform.

Why it was kept

Kyle’s excerpts: the freedom to choose best-of-breed SaaS creates an integration problem, we are in the early innings of cloud/SaaS adoption, and a customer’s description of Workato.

As Kyle captured it

• Read Enabling the next era of enterprise architecture: Our investment in Workato by Redpoint about Workato
  • But one challenge that comes with the freedom to choose the right tool for the job is that **you can end up with a lot of great individual SaaS solutions — but they don’t exactly integrate well **with one another nor with the inevitable on-prem applications.
  • We’re in the early innings of the cloud / SaaS adoption cycle. The number of tools available to teams will only increase, and the need to connect them all is only getting more acute as teams struggle to orchestrate across all their SaaS and on-prem apps. That’s why we believe Workato will serve as the critical enterprise automation platform to enable the hybrid architecture of the modern-day Enterprise. explosion of SaaS apps
  • One customer said it best when they described Workato as “hitting the sweet spot combining consumer-grade simplicity with enterprise robustness.” Consumerization of the Enterprise