iPaaS
A hosted platform that provides prebuilt connectors and tooling to integrate applications and move data between them without building each integration from scratch.
In more detail
Integration Platform as a Service is a cloud platform whose job is connecting other software. Rather than every company writing and maintaining its own point-to-point integrations, an iPaaS supplies prebuilt connectors, a way to map data between systems, and the infrastructure to run those integrations reliably.
The category exists because integration is a perpetual tax. Applications multiply, each speaks its own API, and keeping data flowing between them by hand consumes engineering time indefinitely. An iPaaS centralizes that work so integrations are configured once and maintained in one place rather than scattered across bespoke scripts.
Where this shows up at Ceven
Ceven includes iPaaS-style connectivity, connecting across 1,000+ tools, but goes further than moving data between apps: it adds AI steps for judgment, human-approval gates for consequential actions, and an audit trail over the whole flow. The integration is a means to running a workflow toward an outcome, not the end product.