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Kapow - a big noise in data integration

Editorial Type: Interview     Date: 01-2014    Views: 4498   









DM Editor David Tyler speaks to Darius Heisig, VP for Sales (EMEA) at Kapow Software, a Kofax company, about the importance of data integration technologies in an age of Big Data, social and Cloud computing

David Tyler: Until your acquisition by Kofax last year, I suspect many of our UK readers would not have known very much about Kapow as a company - can we start with a brief history lesson, and then perhaps discuss your value proposition?
Darius Heisig: Founded in Denmark in 1999, and established as a U.S. company in 2006, Kapow Software was, before it was acquired by Kofax on July 31, 2013, a privately held, venture-backed company with approximately 70 employees in the U.S. and Europe. Its headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, USA and it has product development facilities in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kapow 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. Kapow's approach is this: 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, Kapow has 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 that are not meant to be connected and you've got a new-generation advantage: self-enabled automation and integration uniquely capable of driving innovation.

DT: What kind of markets does Kapow target with its products and services?
DH: It's a wide spectrum of names. At one end, Fortune 500 enterprises with large data-processing requirements and huge amounts of integration, including Audi, Intel, Bank of America, Deutsche Telekom and many more. At the other end of the spectrum are web-native brands growing vigorously in all of the online spaces: personal finance, business networking, travel, talent management, recruiting and more.

DT: Can you give a bit more detail on exactly what Kapow's software offering is, and how it works?
DH: Kapow Software puts the power of big data, social media, cloud, and mobile directly into the hands of users, so that employees are informed, agile and empowered. The Kapow Enterprise Platform is used by hundreds of customers for market intelligence, enterprise automation and integration with a platform that permits business users to rapidly self-enable and control data integration and automated workflows, under the governance of IT.

Kapow Katalyst is the only data integration software to provide near real-time application integration and process automation, offering both traditional API level integration capabilities as well as an innovative Synthetic API approach, which provides business users with an agile "point and click, no coding" approach. The resulting data integration modules can then be deployed via Kapow Kapplets - lightweight apps instantly accessible on a self-serviced basis. Hundreds of companies, including Astra Zeneca, Audi, Commerzbank, DHL, Merrill Lynch and Zurich Insurance Group, use Kapow software to become more integrated, automated and productive enterprises.

DT: Can you tell us about some examples of European customers who have used Kapow to solve a business problem and what were the results?
DH: There are several: Deutsche Telekom's M2M (Machine-to-Machine) Competence Centre is using Kapow to integrate data from various disparate sources and deploy these data integration flows as lightweight applications for their business users, yielding up to 60-80% in cost reduction.

Audi delivers not only real-time Web data feeds through their award winning in-dash mobile navigation system using Kapow but also boosts employee productivity by integrating services and tools from numerous sources into one convenient intranet portal. This can reduce implementation time of integration projects by up to 75 percent.

And Commerzbank has used Kapow Software to extend its existing B2C on-line banking application and provide a seamless mobile service to their customers. Full details of all these customer stories and more are available on our website, of course.



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