Makes me wonder if we will see a Zapier IPO soon. It's a crowded space, integration as a service, and in need of consolidation. Zapier doesn't have MuleSofts enterprise street cred because IMHO weak B2B marketing, but the infrastructure is there.
Two very different product sets. Zapier falls over as soon as you want to bring in customized data structures/flows/etc, which frankly every enterprise biz does. It also doesn't integrate with the big on-premise stuff (SAP/Oracle/etc) in a customizable/graceful way.
This is, by the way, not a bad thing.
1. Zapier is very flexible if you're willing to write a bit of Python code.
2. Zapier integrates with really any API that supports webhooks, and even those that don't via a CLI and custom language support.
I don't work for Zapier (sadly). But I do use the product every day and have customized it to some pretty unique needs.
Still great progress for having raised to little though.
What exactly does ARR mean if not Annual Run Rate?
I'm just adding this for posterity since there 3 completely different yet acceptable definitions of ARR, so telling someone they are "wrong" for not using the same definition as you is a tad silly.
- Better enterprise marketing. - Increase depth of existing integrations. - Add additional Zapier-hosted zaps.
I'm a very happy Zapier user and fan, but my sense is they need to hire a few seasoned senior people to level up. I may be wrong, just my sense.
At least, from the perspective of their users.
I don't doubt that Zapier can get there but there is still some way to go even on the infrastructure side.
Defining "major" is hard, I think. You either select a few big providers for integrations, or you go long tail with hundreds. I think there won't be winner take all, as there are a lot of integration dollars to go around (enterprise, SMB, freelance/individual users, etc), and each integration system has their own moat (Microsoft Flow gets access to everyone using Office cloud products, for example).
[1] https://solutionsreview.com/data-integration/whats-changed-2...
We are trying to place ourselves somewhere in between with market place for open source components supporting modern stacks like Python, R, Node.js etc.. We were wondering if that would unlock tremendous power to system integrators?