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Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service
How does Gartner define the Integration Platform as a Service market in 2025?
Gartner defines integration platform as a service (iPaaS) as a vendor-managed cloud service that enables end users to implement integrations between applications, services and data sources, both internal and external to their organization. iPaaS enables end users of the platform to integrate a variety of internal and external applications, services and data sources for at least one of the three main patterns of integration technology use: Data consistency (the ability to monitor for or be notified by applications, services and data sources about changes, and to propagate those changes to the appropriate applications and data destinations), Multistep process (the ability to implement multistep processes between applications, services and data sources), and Composite services (the ability to create composite services exposed as APIs or events and composed from existing applications, services and data sources).
Key Facts for Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service in 2025
- Publication Date: 19 May 2025
- Document ID: G00811259
- Coverage: Worldwide
- Authors: Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, and 2 more
- Core Purpose: This research assesses 16 iPaaS vendors to help software engineering leaders select the right vendors for their needs by evaluating their ability to connect different applications, services and data needed for efficient business operations.
Strategic Planning Assumptions
No strategic planning assumptions provided.
How was the Integration Platform as a Service market evolved in 2025?
- iPaaS market revenue exceeded $9 billion in 2024, up from $7.8 billion in 2023
- Market forecasted to exceed $17 billion by 2028
- 16 vendors evaluated in this Magic Quadrant
- AI capabilities are becoming key differentiators for iPaaS selection
- iPaaS vendors are expanding beyond core integration to include API management, B2B/EDI, RPA, and low-code capabilities
- Different vendors target different integration personas: integration specialists, software developers, and citizen integrators
- Vendors increasingly partnering with application vendors to provide embedded integration capabilities
- Integration is essential to success of AI initiatives across enterprises
- GenAI features democratizing integration, enabling more citizen integrators
- Market characterized by convergence with adjacent technologies like RPA, BPA, and low-code platforms
What product features are required to be included in this year's evaluation?
- A control plane that is provided to the customer as a cloud service.
- A runtime data plane that is provided to the customer as a cloud service or on the customer's infrastructure fully managed by the vendor for all software patches and updates.
- A developer experience to enable end users to implement integration technology for use cases involving data consistency, multistep processes or composite services.
What are the common features of top products in the Integration Platform as a Service space?
- Software development life cycle (SDLC) tooling to enable SDLC management, including versioning, testing and deployment.
- Role-based access control (RBAC) tools to control access to platform resources.
- Catalogs to discover integration assets such as APIs, events and connectors.
- Tools to enable operational monitoring, alerting, reporting and auditing of integrations, processes, pipelines and services in production environments.
- Packaged integration processes (PIPs) to accelerate integration delivery.
- AI augmentation to help generate documentation and build and test integrations.
- AI augmentation to help operate the platform.
- Secure connectivity to applications, services and data sources outside of the vendor-provided cloud.
- Intelligent document processing (IDP) features for processing scanned documents and file attachments.
- Task or process mining.
- Service discovery.
- Data discovery.
Scope Exclusions
- Require a specific third-party component or product to support core iPaaS capabilities that is not already repackaged into the vendor's platforms
- Only sell their iPaaS software along with development or professional services, where the tool is used exclusively by the vendor's consultants or service providers
- Require the purchase or subscription of other unrelated products or platforms offered by the same vendor (for example, a CRM application or data management system)
Inclusion Criteria
Vendors must, among other requirements:
- Meet the market definition of iPaaS
- Clear history of selling and marketing a generally available iPaaS licensed product for at least one complete year as of 1 October 2024
- Sell and market iPaaS as a stand-alone product with no requirement to purchase or subscribe to any other services
- Enable end users to implement integrations directly without mandating vendor or partner professional services
- Implement at least two of three use cases: Data consistency, Multistep process, or Composite service
- Provide secure connectivity for on-premises applications via secure agent or networking without opening inbound firewall rules
- At least $60 million annual revenue in FY 2023 from iPaaS subscription licensing OR at least 3,000 unique paid customer organizations
- Operate in at least two of five geographies: North America, Latin/South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia/Pacific
Ability to Execute — Relative Weighting
- Product or Service - High
- Overall Viability - Medium
- Sales Execution/Pricing - Medium
- Market Responsiveness/Record - Medium
- Marketing Execution - Medium
- Customer Experience - High
- Operations - High
Completeness of Vision — Relative Weighting
- Market Understanding - High
- Marketing Strategy - Medium
- Sales Strategy - Medium
- Offering (Product) Strategy - High
- Business Model - Low
- Vertical/Industry Strategy - Medium
- Innovation - High
- Geographic Strategy - Medium
FAQs
Q: What does this research cover?
A: This research evaluates 16 iPaaS vendors across ability to execute and completeness of vision criteria. It covers vendor-managed cloud services that enable integration between applications, services and data sources for use cases including data consistency, multistep processes, and composite services. The evaluation includes mandatory features like cloud control/data planes, developer experience, SDLC tooling, and common features like AI augmentation, packaged integration processes, and operational monitoring.
Q: Who should use this research?
A: Software engineering leaders should use this research when selecting iPaaS vendors to address integration needs across their enterprise. It helps evaluate vendors based on their integration requirements including: intended use (tactical vs strategic), endpoints to connect, industry familiarity, user persona skills, SLA requirements, security/compliance needs, geographic data center locations, hybrid/multicloud deployment needs, available skills/budget, and AI enablement capabilities.
Q: What are the mandatory features of vendors included in this market?
A: Vendors must provide: (1) A cloud-based control plane for platform management and governance, (2) A runtime data plane delivered as a cloud service or fully managed by the vendor on customer infrastructure with all patches and updates, and (3) A developer experience that enables end users to directly implement integration technology for data consistency, multistep processes, or composite services use cases.
Q: What are some reasons for not being included in this report?
A:
- Requiring third-party components not repackaged into their platform
- Only selling iPaaS bundled with mandatory professional services
- Requiring purchase of other unrelated products from the same vendor
- Not meeting revenue threshold ($60M annual iPaaS revenue) or customer threshold (3,000 paid organizations)
- Operating in fewer than two geographic regions
- Less than one year of generally available iPaaS product history as of October 1, 2024
- Not implementing at least two of the three core integration use case patterns
- Not providing vendor-managed data plane option
Q: What differentiates Ability to Execute vs. Completeness of Vision?
A: Ability to Execute assesses current product capabilities, operational excellence, sales performance, customer satisfaction, and market responsiveness. It focuses on how well vendors deliver and support their existing offerings today. Completeness of Vision evaluates strategic direction, innovation roadmap, market understanding, and future-oriented capabilities. It assesses how well vendors anticipate and prepare for market evolution, emerging technologies like AI, and changing customer needs. Leaders typically excel in both dimensions, while Challengers execute well but lack forward vision, and Visionaries demonstrate strong innovation but may lack execution maturity.
Reference
- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, 19 May 2025, ID G00811259
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