Can you please explain what differentiates your product from previous attempts to realize the dream? E.g. 4GL, Visual Programming Languages, business rules engines, Access, SharePoint, low-code or no-code platforms, etc.
But the problem is, no one has put them all together in quite the right way to satisfy our needs.
- We needed a platform that would let our non-programmer staff create complex integration-related features for customers. We needed an accessible VPL that was easy to get started in, but powerful if power was needed.
- We needed a lot of integrations to not-particularly-popular business software (which means, we needed the ability to write and/or extend them ourselves); we needed the integration editor to be accessible and easy to use by junior programmers.
- We needed data pulled from integrations to be stored and kept around for a while; we need to look up individuals, see their history and a history of triggered VPL logic; we needed to be able to update and bulk-execute VPL scripts against the data store; we needed full text search capability as well.
- We needed workflows/data organized into tenants with a user auth scheme that would let us invite business customers to see just their data and no-one else's, with view-only permission as well.
- We needed something that could scale up to handle a lot of work, and still be at a competitive price.
There isn't a platform that has all of these things. One or two, sure. But not all of them. My hope is that in 5 years b2b saas companies won't have to build much integration software themselves; there will be us, or someone like us, that'll handle it for them, and they can focus on whatever it is they actually made the company to do.