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While organizations are adopting cloud-based applications, few are running everything in the cloud – meaning that integrating cloud apps with in-house legacy applications can be a challenge. However, with the emergence of integrators, SaaS-specific integration tools, organizations are now able to do all the integration themselves.

 

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