Tools
Talking about Apache Airflow and Make.com, both are automation tools. However, what differs is the type of automation they provide with.
In this blog, we will be covering all the differences between the two automation tools.
Apache airflow helps in scheduling, arranging, and monitoring the data or workflows. It involves managing all the data-related activities like sequencing and coordinating the complicated data into understandable data. The workflows created by Apache Airflow are then ready to be consumed by the businesses and allow for informed decision-making.
Make.com is an integration tool that helps in automating, visualizing, and designing the work in minutes. With the help of Make.com, the day-to-day activities which are tedious and monotonous can be automated. Moreover, it further allows the employees to employ efforts at matters that are more pressing and crucial to the growth of the business.
One thing that helps in identifying the features of both apps is the reviews that the users give after their first-hand experience. This enables the potential users to understand what the particular has to offer. Here are the reviews regarding Apache Airflow and Make.com.
As per Integrate.io, Apache Airflow is ideal to use for long ETL processes which have multiple steps. Since it is not a library, it is better that you use it for large data work and not for small ETL. The best thing is that it lets you restart from any point.
According to the article on medium, Apache Airflow is not designed to pass data between dependent tasks without using a database. There is no good way to pass unstructured data (e.g., image, video, pickle, etc.) between dependent tasks in Airflow.
As per an article on the best iPaaS software, Make.com is a free no-code tool that integrates with multiple apps and allows automation. Moreover, it connects to API and allows all sorts of integrations with built-in tools.
Another article states that Make.com has the best key feature, which allows the user to watch real-time data going throughout the workflow steps. This feature facilitates when there are multiple integrations or triggers happen. Not just that, but it offers various other features that make managing and automating the workflows a lot easier.
The difference between the two tools lies in the pricing as well. Make.com pricing starts at a completely free package but has so many features to offer. Then there is a core, pro, teams, and enterprise packages, with the last offer being completely customized according to the needs of the business.
On the other hand, Apache Airflow also offers multiple packages that vary in what they have to provide.
Then comes the popularity of both the tools; it might seem that Make.com is more famous among the users, but the truth is that as per the recommendations and mentions on Reddit and other various platforms, it can be said that Apache Airflow is very popular among the users.
There are several alternatives in the market for these two tools. Some are mentioned below.
IFTTT makes the connections between the products and the world for you. It is yet another automation tool that enables you to do things that your apps and devices don’t let you.
It allows you to get started with the automation within minutes. With Zapier, you can connect millions of apps together and start the automation process.
It is no-code management software that allows for the automation and management of the workflow processes.
With Pushwood, you can engage with your one-on-one mediums via using any channel.
Microsoft flow also enables you to integrate and automate the tasks from various services.
It is yet another integrational tool that helps in managing the workflow. Kissflow is rated as the number one cloud software tool in the Google apps marketplace.
Apache Airflow and Make.com are different in various ways. Firstly, based on what they have to offer, then their pricing, and also the reviews show how distinct the two tools are. Moreover, if you think that these tools are not fulfilling your requirements, then there are several alternatives in the market that we have mentioned to you.
Do let us know which tool do you think is better for the business? And which tool offers more benefits to a business?
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Cloud Integration, iPaaS, SaaS, BPA… Ough, hard to keep track of all these terms. They are currently used frequently (and increasingly) in the context of automation, and it is sometimes difficult to make a clear distinction and distinction. We have already written blog posts on the terms iPaaS, SaaS and BPA, but we’ll take them up again here to make the difference.
But let’s start with cloud integration, because that’s the central umbrella term in which we embed all the other technologies in this blog post.
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To illustrate these advantages, an example is suitable that we know well from our everyday work as an automation agency:
The central data to be used here is the data of a major customer. This can be the simplest information, such as the address. This address is required in numerous but completely different processes in the company: on the one hand, for correct invoicing in accounting. On the other hand, in the CRM system, where all the data of the large customer is also stored. But the address is also important in sales, for example, when employees go to the sales meeting on site.
Now the customer announces that the address of the company has changed after a move. This information will reach you by e-mail. There are now two options:
01. The e-mail is forwarded to all affected departments, accounting, sales, customer service, marketing… All persons open their corresponding program, CRM, accounting software, marketing tools (such as newsletter marketing) and change the data already stored there of the customer. This means that in multiple applications, different people do exactly the same thing: change one address.
02. But there is also an alternative: By connecting your applications, thus by integrizing them, the customer’s e-mail, or rather the information it contains about the address change, is automatically passed on to all affected applications: CRM, accounting, marketing, ERP. This does not require any clicks, because the cloud integration detects a trigger, i.e. address change, and thus automatically starts the process.
What sounds unimpressive in a single process becomes more effective when such a process occurs several times a day or weekly. Because there is a lot of data that is available in different applications and should always be correct. If these applications are cloud applications they are suitable for cloud integration.
But cloud integration doesn’t just happen. There are now a variety of applications that enable and implement this. Such tools usually allow us to link the relevant cloud applications on a central platform and define clear rules on when, how, where, how much data should be passed on and what happens to them.
To realize cloud integration, there are various applications and technologies that are sometimes used interchangeably.
We have made a first distinction between iPaaS and BPA here.
We explain the term SaaS in more detail here.
Cloud integration is rather an umbrella term that includes numerous technologies, such as SaaS, iPaaS and BPA, and this is also absolutely necessary. Cloud integration is a concept that is made possible by appropriate technologies.
However, all terms share the commonality that they are cloud-based and thus offer enormous potential for growth and scaling. In addition, they are often cheaper to implement and maintain because changed requirements are easy to implement.
As an independent automation agency, we implement cloud integration according to your requirements. We use a variety of SaaS tools and iPaas (strictly speaking BPA) software. Together we find individual solutions that are flexible and scalable.
