Frends Features
API Construction (4)
API Testing
As reported in 29 Frends reviews. Provides an environment for users to rest their API's functionality, efficiency, and data accuracy.
Data Security
Allows users to secure access to data. Provides additional support for security practices like IP whitelisting, attack mitigation, and data encryption. 26 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Orchestration
Allows administrators to create APIs that utilize multiple backend resources and databases. 28 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Scalability
Expands functionality while maintaining balanced loads. Serves growing demand without reducing functionality. This feature was mentioned in 30 Frends reviews.
API Management (5)
Traffic Control
Limits access to suspicious visitors and monitors for traffic spikes to prevent overloads like DDoS attacks. 30 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Logs/Documentation
Records details related to usage and functionality for analytics and reporting. This feature was mentioned in 33 Frends reviews.
API Monitoring
As reported in 32 Frends reviews. Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.
Monetization
As reported in 21 Frends reviews. Allows administrators to manage pricing and billing of API integration with customer applications.
Gateway
As reported in 27 Frends reviews. Provides a dashboard for users to manage, govern, and secure their API.
Data Integration (3)
App Integration
Based on 33 Frends reviews. The functionality at which APIs integrate with and perform within third-party applications.
Data Transformation
Translates complex datasets and backend systems into formats that can be interpreted by applications. 32 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Plugins
As reported in 26 Frends reviews. Provides additional functionality for increased security, analytics, monitoring, and other features not included in the native feature set.
Management (11)
Reporting
Based on 22 Frends reviews. View ETL process data via reports and visualizations like charts and graphs.
Auditing
As reported in 20 Frends reviews. Record ETL historical data for auditing and potential data correction needs.
Workflow Management
As reported in 16 Frends reviews. Enables end-to-end automation of key EDI processes without any user intervention.
Exception Handling
Detects the EDI errors and instantly notifies and alerts the transmission issue. This feature was mentioned in 17 Frends reviews.
Real Time Reporting
Based on 15 Frends reviews. Provides a real-time customizable dashboard that allows users to track, monitor and manage transactions.
Third-Party Apps
As reported in 30 Frends reviews. Allows users to manage third party application integration
White Labelled
As reported in 29 Frends reviews. Provides a fully white labelled solution
Workflow
Provides users with intelligent workflow automation capabilities This feature was mentioned in 35 Frends reviews.
Self-Service
As reported in 21 Frends reviews. Self-service enables a software provider’s customers to easily activate packaged integrations.
Monitoring
Based on 22 Frends reviews. Monitoring features, including instrumentation and observability, enable the product team and operations teams to centrally manage all customer integrations.
Notification
As reported in 22 Frends reviews. Notification and alerts are included that empower development teams to manage and push out updates to integrations to across their customer base.
Functionality (7)
Extraction
Extract data from the designated source(s) like relational databases, JSON files, and XML files. This feature was mentioned in 23 Frends reviews.
Transformation
As reported in 25 Frends reviews. Cleanse and re-format extracted data to the needed target format.
Loading
As reported in 23 Frends reviews. Load reformatted data into target database, data warehouse, or other storage location.
Automation
Arrange ETL processes to occur automatically on needed time schedule (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly). This feature was mentioned in 24 Frends reviews.
Scalability
Capable of scaling processing power up or down based on ETL volume. This feature was mentioned in 24 Frends reviews.
Data Exchange
Enables electronic document transfer between businesses and trading partners. This feature was mentioned in 17 Frends reviews.
Data Mapping
Translates the EDI data back and forth, basically converts internal data format into the EDI standard format. 16 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Development (6)
API Testing
As reported in 25 Frends reviews. Provides an environment for users to test their API's functionality, efficiency, and data accuracy.
Data Security
Based on 25 Frends reviews. Allows users to secure access to data. Provides additional support for security practices like IP whitelisting, attack mitigation, and data encryption.
Orchestration
Allows developers to create APIs that utilize multiple backend resources and databases. 27 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Scalability
Based on 28 Frends reviews. Expands functionality while maintaining balanced loads. Serves growing demand without reducing functionality.
Low-Code
As reported in 35 Frends reviews. Provides users with self-service, low-code/no-code development options
Customization
Based on 35 Frends reviews. Allows users to build and deploy custom integrations for customer-facing applications
Collaboration (3)
Design Management
Allows administrators to set API design guidelines and best practices. 25 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Access Control
Based on 25 Frends reviews. Enables administrators to set permissions for team members to access workspaces.
Visibility
As reported in 26 Frends reviews. Allows members across teams to view progress and updates throughout the design process.
Integrations (2)
Third Party Integration
Allows integrations to business applications such as accounting packages, ERP software, E- commerce systems etc to streamline order processing workflow. This feature was mentioned in 16 Frends reviews.
BI Tools Integration
As reported in 11 Frends reviews. Allows integration with third party reporting and business intelligence applications.
Security (7)
Communication Protocols
Based on 14 Frends reviews. Supports encrypted file transfer protocols like VAN, AS2, FTP/sFTP and HTTPS.
EDI Standards
As reported in 14 Frends reviews. Built-in support for a wide variety of traditional and modern EDI standards as well as the ability to define custom standards.
Data Encryption
Employs data encryption both at rest and in transit. 38 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Security Standards
Comply to key industry standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA etc to protect and safeguard data. This feature was mentioned in 40 Frends reviews.
Communication Protocol
Supports secure communication protocols like FTPS, SFTP etc This feature was mentioned in 39 Frends reviews.
Authentication
Based on 36 Frends reviews. Ability for users to offload authentication integration
Compliance
As reported in 35 Frends reviews. Compliant with GDPR, HIPPA, and other necessary regulations
Support (1)
EDI Testing
Creates a test environment for EDI transactions to verify them and ensure they adhere to industry compliance requirements. This feature was mentioned in 15 Frends reviews.
Development (7)
Real-Time Integration
Supports event or transaction based integrations that react to changes in real-time 40 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
API Designer
Based on 42 Frends reviews. Provides a web-based interface for designing, documenting, and testing APIs.
Flow Designer
Allows for integration development through the visual development of integration logic flows with the help od a drag and drop user interface. 44 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Pre-Built Connectors
As reported in 43 Frends reviews. Facilitiates API development and integrations with prebuilt connectors, templates, and examples.
Custom Connectors
As reported in 41 Frends reviews. Provides the ability to create connectors from existing services and APIs in catalog.
Reusable connectors
Provides prebuilt, reusable connectors and workflows for all user integration requirements. This feature was mentioned in 44 Frends reviews.
Multi - tenant architecture
As reported in 36 Frends reviews. Enables multiple tenants (customers) to securely share physical computing resources.
Management (5)
Monitoring & Notification
Console for monitoring resource utilization, system health, ability to start and stop processes, etc. This feature was mentioned in 46 Frends reviews.
Routing And Orchestration
As reported in 38 Frends reviews. Enables data routing on configuration basis and management of complex workflows through an orchestration engine.
Data Mapping
As reported in 42 Frends reviews. Facilitates to and fro data map according to the data model between applications/web services.
Data Transformation
Provides standard tools and functions to convert data values from the data format of a source system into the data format of a destination system. 44 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
API Management
Supports and oversees the management of API products across their full lifecycle This feature was mentioned in 41 Frends reviews.
Integration Options (4)
Data Virtualization
Integrates data from disparate sources, without physical data movement 32 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Managed File Transfers
As reported in 42 Frends reviews. Provides one or more methods to securely transfer data from one location to another through a network
Big Data Processing
Provides integration to BigData sources such as Hadoop and other NoSQL sources (MongoDB, Cassandra and HBase) This feature was mentioned in 33 Frends reviews.
EDI
Provides Integrations to EDI service providers. 35 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Deployment (2)
Hybrid
Supports deployment of integration apps both on-premisis and cloud environments/ 37 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Cloud to Cloud
As reported in 37 Frends reviews. Supports deployment of integration apps to a managed cloud environment
Data (1)
Scalability
Scales to adapt to rising data volume This feature was mentioned in 36 Frends reviews.
Application Integration (4)
Third Party
Organizations have the ability to integrate applications with third party and/or customer facing applications. This feature was mentioned in 21 Frends reviews.
Scalability
Elastic processing capabilities enable software providers to meet customer integration processing demand. 21 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.
Workflow Automation
Based on 20 Frends reviews. Platform provides users with prebuilt application connectors and integration workflow automations.
Connectivity
Connectivity APIs can be enabled to allow development teams to directly integrate with applications, databases, and services. 22 reviewers of Frends have provided feedback on this feature.





