Cast Iron Systems provides integration services between enterprises and various on demand services. The integration process offered by Cast Iron uses pre configured templates for integrating with on demand services resulting in benefits such as lower costs of integration, faster time to market and simple management among others.
Cast Iron provides straight out of box support for Google’s Secure Data Connector (SDC) to integrate Google Apps, Google App Engine and Google Sites with enterprise data that can be made available from repositories such as ERP, CRM and SaaS applications among others. The straight out of box support might push the adoption of SDC in enterprises. Cast Iron for Google Apps is offered as an appliance, SaaS (cloud) offering and virtual appliance.
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