Human beings are known for a myriad of different things, and yet nothing about them is more recognizable than their tendency to improve at a consistent pace. We say this because the stated tendency has already fetched the world some huge milestones, with technology appearing as a rather unique member of the group. The reason why technology’s credentials are so anomalous is purposed around its skill-set, which was unprecedented enough to realize all the possibilities for us that we couldn’t have imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, a closer look should be able to reveal how the whole runner was also very much inspired by the way we applied those skills across a real world environment. The latter component was, in fact, what gave the creation a spectrum-wide presence and made it the ultimate centerpiece of every horizon. Now, having such a powerful tool run the show did expand our experience in many different directions, but even after reaching so far ahead, this prodigious concept called technology will somehow keep on delivering the right goods. The same has grown to become a lot more evident in recent times, and assuming one new HRM-themed development pans out just like we envision, it will only propel that trend towards greater heights over the near future and beyond.
Tray.io, creator of the AI-powered, multi-experience iPaaS, has officially announced the launch of an AI-augmented API Management solution, which can turn any new or existing workflow into a reusable API. By doing so, it makes a substantial cut around the technical debt associated with the operational effort and costs of traditional API management (APIM). According to certain reports, the new API Management solution is built on top of Merlin AI – the foundational intelligence layer of the Tray platform, a place from where it provides developers and business teams with a unified low-code, AI-augmented development toolkit to collaborate, innovate, and streamline the creation of microservices. This translates to how the new development toolkit and a new Tray Build user experience will facilitate for users high-velocity composable, collaborative and reusable integration and automation development. Not just the creation part, though, but the stated solution also transforms microservice delivery and maintenance through no additional overhead or provisioning. Talk about the whole value proposition on a more granular level, we begin from Tray Build, which provides a single unified development environment to collaboratively create integrations and workflows. One can also turn those integrations and workflows into REST APIs with a few clicks. Next up, we have API governance and control capabilities that deliver at your disposal secure publishing, governance, access control, rate limiting, and more. Then, there is the prospect of lifecycle management where you can leverage Tray Build to generate a visual view of API logic. This basically enables changes and explainability with powerful Merlin narratives, narratives that describe every step of the business logic behind the API to fast-track developer understanding. Another detail worth a mention regarding the given product is its elastic scalability, which banks upon platform’s serverless Enterprise Core to ensure companies are able to scale virtually effort-free, as compared to traditional rigid and difficult to provision APIM tools.
“The demand for APIs is set to further accelerate as organizations look to build new composite services that tap into AI capabilities. But for enterprises to maximize their ROI from API management initiatives, they must focus on ease of API delivery to boost their velocity and ease of management to lower their ongoing cost of operations,” said Alexander Wurm, senior analyst at Nucleus Research. “As a Leader in the 2023 iPaaS Value Matrix, Tray.io’s AI-augmented API Management promises to deliver the agility that enterprises need at a time when speed and responsiveness to change have never been more important.”
Before we round things up, we must dive deeper into the nitty-gritty of Tray.io’s all-new connector development toolkit, as well as the new user experience it promises to present. Starting with the toolkit, you can use the same to essentially build composable connectors for use across all Tray Universal Automation Cloud capabilities in process automation, data integration and APIM. This also covers development experiences like Tray Build and Tray Code. Enhancing its prospects even further is how, unlike legacy SDKs that are traditionally complex and require nuanced skill sets, Tray CDK is actually built on simplistic Node and TypeScript. Having that, along with an OpenAPI import which defines operations in seconds rather than weeks of development, the toolkit paves the way for easy application. Finally, we reach the new user experience. Mainly concerned with the Tray Build functionality and centered on composability, this new experience allows a straightforward mechanism to assemble integrations for every composable component, including snippets, APIs, templates and callables. Markedly enough, it does so by providing a singular repository to centralize and manage every building block, thus maximizing collaboration during development and reuse across all Universal Automation Cloud capabilities.
The development in question follows up well on a Gartner report, which claimed that “By 2028, 75% of enterprise software engineers will use AI coding assistants, up from less than 10% in early 2023.”
Founded in 2013, Tray.io’s rise stems from an ability to speed time-to-integration from months to days, and guess what, it does that all through a single platform. The company’s excellence in what it does can be understood once you look at its customer base that includes the likes of NetApp, IBM, GitHub, Outreach, Typeform, hackerone, ThoughtSpot, and many others. In fact, to give you specific instances of Tray.io’s impact, eventbrite achieved 100% reduction in support ticket after integrating the company’s technology. Apart from it, Auctane conceived a whopping 356% in ROI, whereas Udemy succeeded in saving more than 20 hours every month. In case you are still looking for more on its credentials, we can mention how Tray.io has been recognized with a Major Player tag in the IDC MarketScape for iPaas, and a Visionary title in the 2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for iPaas, while simultaneously winning the Best Integration Platform award at the Proddy Awards.
“Fusion-team-based development, where business teams who use low-code and development teams who are building code-first and consuming APIs can all work together, is quickly becoming essential for enterprises to achieve the velocity they need,” said Alistair Russell, co-founder and CTO of Tray.io. “It’s no longer a question of whether organizations should unify their development approaches on a single platform — but how — so they can eliminate inefficiencies, such as the need to juggle separate tooling. With Tray, teams can maximize their productivity by building integrations, automations and now APIs once and then securely share them across the organization.
