What is ZiFaaS ? 
ZiFaaS, or Azure-powered Integration Factory-as-a-Service, is a fully managed service offering that delivers integration touchpoints through factory execution model on Azure iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service)
Consult
Establish goals and high-level gaps
Discover
Create the roadmap from as-is to to-be
Build foundation
Create the foundation for a factory model of execution
Run at scale
Start delivering at scale and make continuous improvements
Connect integration to business outcomes
Break siloed and varied approaches to integration
Adopt a factory model for API integration
Adopt best practices for faster
go-to-market
Rationalize on tooling and introduce automation
Making integration easier for the business
Azure-powered Integration Factory as a Service
What
A fully managed service offering delivering integration touchpoints through factory execution model on Azure iPaaS (Integration platform as a service).
Why
- To achieve operational efficiency through production of integration touchpoints at scale and speed.
- To ensure that speed to market does not cost compliance or security violations.
- To ensure standardization of integration approach across an organization.
How
- By using readily available tools, templates, guidelines and an overarching framework that come with ZiFaaS.
- By implementing the right target operating model based on ZiFaaS factory execution model.
- By drawing upon time-tested ZiFaaS reference architecture.
- By leveraging a set of available ZiFaaS service catalogs.
When
- To empower businesses by enabling citizen integration capabilities.
- To deliver integration touchpoints at scale in a consistent, fast and cost-effective manner.
- To implement forward-looking and modern integration architecture principles and patterns.
- To reduce technical debt by rationalizing org-wide legacy integration technologies.
How are we different
Our global experience across industries has given us a unique ability to bring integration technology closer to the business and create a solid foundation for citizen integration.
"Integration-as-products" approach
Focus on agile and
platform reliability
engineering culture
Business-driven approach to connector development
Automation and
AI-infused solution
Pervasive security
through DevSecOps
Flexible and pluggable service model to adapt to different work cultures across the globe
Our capabilities
As one of the leading global service integrators on Azure, we bring in a whole range of Microsoft cloud experiences—from SaaS, including Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365—to PaaS. We have over 100 global customers to whom we offer our expertise and experience. ZiFaaS is an outcome of that in the cloud integration space.
Thought leadership
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A British multinational oil and gas company embarked on a journey to develop long-term CloudOps efficiency enhancement through DevOps Automation. HCLTech partnered with the client to help achieve its transformation objectives via Azure DevOps automation and provided a holistic approach to firm up the deployment process.
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A leading water utility company providing water supply and sewage treatment services in Australia partnered with HCLTech to create an intelligent data platform built on the MS Azure Data Lake. It resulted in a unified view of data, energy savings, regulatory compliance, and increased customer satisfaction.
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One of Australia’s largest non-profit organizations providing care & support services faced multiple challenges during legacy integrations resulting into performance & real-time data-sync issues. HCLTech fulfilled its client's expectations by setting up a scalable and flexible integration factory service powered by Azure-based integration platform. To learn more, download the success story.
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A leading Australian retailer embarked on a journey to automate myriad processes in its distribution value chain to minimize human effort. HCLTech partnered with the client to create a paperless, more efficient system for their busy distribution centers which resulted in a 70% increase in productivity.
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A privately held, family-owned company headquartered in Denmark, was facing many challenges with its compliance processes. HCLTech came onboard to leverage SharePoint Online as the data repository to create an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) generator, which streamlined the complete NDA process for the client.
Read moreOur Microsoft relationship
The HCLTech-Microsoft partnership is built on HCLTech’s world-class digital innovation capabilities, together with Microsoft’s market-leading enterprise technology to help customers unlock the benefits of Microsoft’s entire portfolio of products and services, especially Microsoft Cloud services. It enables businesses to transform into more agile and adaptive enterprises using HCLTech’s innovative, specialized services across Microsoft’s solution stacks, and cloud services including Azure, M365, Github, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365. Through this, HCLTech has become a leader in the Microsoft services marketplace by consistently achieving competencies and analyst recognition across the entire Microsoft services spectrum. Learn more: https://www.hcltech.com/microsoft
Awards
HCLTech has been positioned as a Leader in Everest Group System Integrator (SI) Capabilities on Microsoft Azure Services PEAK Matrix™ Assessment, 2021
Read moreHCLTech positioned as a Leader by Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Managed Workplace Services, North America, 2021
Read moreHCLTech has won the “Technology Innovator of the Year” Award for PowerObjects - Power Platform at Technology Product Awards, 2020
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