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Unified APIs

Our unique Elements are designed to unify the developer experience across all kinds of apps and services. Regardless of your backend implementation – REST, SOAP, Database, etc. – Cloud Elements creates a unified API layer and standards-based implementation across every environment.

A Catalog of Over 170 Elements

Other integration vendors offer “connectors”. We have Elements.

Unified APIs are the foundation of the Cloud Elements vision, offering far greater value than simple “connectors”. For example, applications consuming the unified Cloud Elements APIs are insulated from changes to the endpoint APIs. Traditional connectors used in ESB and iPaaS platforms don’t help solve integration challenges that scale to your entire ecosystem.

An ‘Element’ is a prebuilt API integration that enables a connection into a specific cloud application or cloud service endpoint (e.g., Box, Salesforce.com). Our Elements provide a variety of advanced features built in. We offer normalized authentication, discovery APIs, search capabilities, event-driven workflows, unified error handling and so much more.

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Anatomy of an Element

API integration is much more than just writing to the API – that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Below the surface, developers have to consider authentication mechanisms, discovery APIs, search capabilities, event-driven workflows, and so much more. Our API Integration Platform helps you manage all of it.

Authentication & Provisioning

Uniform APIs provide a consistent workflow to authenticate each service you connect with, so your application doesn’t need to build the logic to manage authentication, refresh keys and provision instances – we do it all for you.

Eventing

Manages event triggers to receive data at preset times. Provides the ability to process events received from service endpoints, including Webhooks, AMQP, XMPP, Push.

Usage & Monitoring

Each API call is logged, tracked and searchable in our Big Data environment. Activity levels, response times, and error rates are available through a uniform set of APIs regardless of endpoint.

Maintenance

Any API versioning, changes, maintenance, and updates are handled by Cloud Elements.

Search

We provide a standard SQL-based query language (Cloud Elements’ Query Language, CEQL) that is consistent across each Element. Using CEQL, developers can pass the same query structure to all Element endpoints.

Notifications

Set-up and manage real-time events and accompanying notifications to keep your application up to date on changes for all of the endpoints you connect with.

Pagination

When a request returns multiple pages of a response, Cloud Elements normalizes the pagination information from the endpoint, allowing the developer to implement normalized pagination code.

API Integration Categories

Elements

Elements are feature rich, pre-built adapters to all the cloud apps you need to integrate.

Elements share common services including discovery, search query, pagination, bulk uploading and downloading, logging and interactive documentation.
Methods are normalized and accessible through RESTful APIs.
We keep each Element up to date with changes at the endpoint.
Each Element is a “Multi-tenant” connector supporting an unlimited number of authenticated accounts with no additional code required.

API Hubs

Hubs map resources from a collection or category of Elements into a unified set of APIs.

Hubs are accessed using a consistent RESTful API with a JSON payload regardless of the technology used at the endpoint.
We provide a uniform set of interactive API documentation that developers use to access the resources in the Hub.
Combine resources from multiple categories providing a consistent set of APIs and documentation to access any collection of resources (e.g., combine Salesforce, Box, and QuickBooks API resources into a Hub).