By itself, an app or a web site can solely accomplish that a lot. It’s when it really works along side different companies that it turns into really highly effective. IFTTT—for If This Then That—popularized hitching collectively a number of web sites and companies into event-driven workflows that almost all anybody may use.
IFTTT isn’t the one recreation on the town for hitching issues collectively, although—particularly if you happen to’re a programmer. Here are 5 choices—three hosted companies and two open supply initiatives—that present IFTTT-like integrations for each stand-alone builders and builders working in enterprise settings.
Zapier
Zapier works lots like IFTTT. You choose from a catalog of over 1,000 obtainable companies, select actions from one service that function a set off, then hook that as much as actions on different companies, utilizing a flowchart-like UI. Zapier’s greatest disadvantage is that it’s nonetheless fairly new—some options and integrations stay undelivered.
Zapier sports activities a big roster of enterprise-specific and developer-centric integrations: GitHub, Slack, OneDrive, Monday, Trello. Browse the developer instruments class and odds are you’ll discover most each device you already use, in addition to just a few you weren’t conscious of.
Some integrations can be found solely to premium customers, corresponding to AWS Lambda, however the overwhelming majority (together with these talked about above) will be accessed on the free tier. Other integrations are nonetheless in beta, like Okta or CloudBoost. And nonetheless others are deliberate however not but obtainable, corresponding to Code Climate, CircleCI, Amazon RedShift, and Active Directory.
