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





