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DreamFactory Overview

What is DreamFactory?

DreamFactory Software is the fastest way to build secure, internal REST APIs. Instantly generate APIs from any database with built-in enterprise security controls that operates on-premises, air-gapped, or in the cloud. Develop 4x faster, save 70% on new projects, remove project management uncertainty, focus talent on truly critical issues, win more clients, and integrate with newer & legacy technologies instantly as needed. DreamFactory is the easiest and fastest way to automatically generate, publish, manage, and secure REST APIs, convert SOAP to REST, and aggregate disparate data sources through a single API platform. See why companies like Disney, Bosch, Netgear, T-Mobile, Intel, and many more are embracing DreamFactory's innovative platform to get a competitive edge. Start a hosted trial or talk to our engineers to get access to an on-prem environment

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Never build an API again. Get the backend you have been Dreaming of. Created & deployed instantly. No coding or ESB required. Instant REST or GraphQL APIs let you remove IT's biggest bottleneck - so you can save significant amounts of money, develop faster, win more client deals and integrate new or legacy technologies for instant strategic agility. Find out why companies like NETGEAR, William Hill, Moodys Analytics and Magic Leap are accelerating their technical tempo, and how your business can benefit.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

DreamFactory is an on-prem, enterprise-ready, security-forward platform. Secured behind your firewall, we give customers total control over the installation and traffic being pushed through your API network without fear of incurring overages.

With an on-premise or self-hosted installation, you can rest assured that all sensitive data has secure access and is not stored within the DreamFactory middleware. Total control over your data security with no third-party spill risks.


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2012
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Integrate.io is a low-code data pipeline platform specializing in Operational ETL so companies can automate business processes and manual data preparation. Its three core use cases focus on: 1) File data preparation and B
B data sharing
) Preparing and loading data to CRMs and ERPs such as Salesforce, NetSuite, and HubSpot3) Powering data products with real-time database replication.


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4.0 out of 5
"Gratefull, very googd"
the security is very good give me options tu protected the data
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Samantha M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"For me was interesting how faster could basic CRUD operations were exposed to consumption."
- Expose APIs to data sources. - Swagger documentation of all APIs. - Trial period time feels good.
Stephen H.
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Stephen H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Really easy to set up, we started here rather than heavier AWS"
It's pretty easy to get a REST API up and running for quick prototyping.
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What do you like best about DreamFactory?

DreamFactory is extremely easy to use as their user interface is very easy to follow. You set up your connections using their configurable options and you immediately gain access to APIs that connect to you data. The various types of API connections that DreamFactory offers is top notch. HTTP, SOAP, REST, Scripting, Files, DBs, and the list goes on. Think about how much time you spend on creating your APIs for your applications. Take the number of hours multiplied by the cost of the resources it takes to code APIs into existence. DreamFactory abstracts that layer of complexity by automating it, delivering APIs that are ready to consume. It also integrates well with your applications. I use DreamFactory nearly every day to consume data from various data sources. The customer support is also top notch; the folks over at DreamFactory know what they're doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

I have not run into anything that I dislike about DreamFactory. As a software developer and data engineer, the upsides far outweigh any potential downsides that may occur. DreamFactory has saved me so much time on API development that it's difficult to think of any downsides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

DreamFactory abstracts the layer of complexity and time when it comes to developing APIs. For example, say I want to make an API that consumes data from a SQL Server. I would have to write the server side code, for example in Node or Python. I would then need to have a means of orchestrating that app on the cloud to generate an endpoint. Essentially, I would need knowledge in software development and cloud engineering. With DreamFactory, you connect to the DataSource and voila, out comes your API endpoint! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Terence Bennett of DreamFactory

Hi Chao - Thank you! We really value our customer's feedback, and we take great pride in the DreamFactory product. It's great to hear how much money DreamFactory has saved your team in dev time. We hear this from a lot of customers!

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What do you like best about DreamFactory?

For me personally, I love how easy it is to use, even for those with less experience with APIs. Unlike many other API development platforms, in DreamFactory manual coding isn't needed in most cases, this saves a lot of time and effort.

I was able to connect my MySQL database and set up user permissions for my new app in minutes, something that would have taken me hours of coding otherwise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

For me it's the paid plans, it can sometimes be quite expensive for some people. Other than that, I am satisfied with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

DreamFactory has been a gamechanger for me! As someone who's not a coding wizard, building APIs used to feel like a daunting task. But DreamFactory cuts through the complexity with its userfriendly interface and minimal coding requirements. No more getting bogged down in writing lines and lines of code . I can focus on what the API actually needs to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about DreamFactory?

- Expose APIs to data sources.

- Swagger documentation of all APIs.

- Trial period time feels good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

- Cost, think that is expensive.

- In order to test more data sources needs to acess to trial period

- Improve documentation examples, need to do some research in order to understand how was working the access token API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reading data from different schemas in a easy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about DreamFactory?

It's pretty easy to get a REST API up and running for quick prototyping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

There's a little bit of a learning curve where you're aligning your understanding of APIs with the structure of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a great way to spin up an API and unblock a development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Easy to use and to setup (for local deployment); Good documentation; Great set of databases / backends Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

It would be great if it had a GUI for query / update the data on the projetc's databases, to make small updates and queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

Replace API programing on small systems when migrating towards SPA frontend-only apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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the security is very good give me options tu protected the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

the technical options y so dificult to setting the parameters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

conect to others tools or applications to form sure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The onboarding process and the documentation made the evaluation process really easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

The licensing model make the decision complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating API fast to create an MVP version of a product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about DreamFactory?

Dreamfactory has enabled me to have easier, faster and more secure access to our on-site data sources than ever before. What used to take all day now only takes minutes. The ability to tailor what data is able to served and the access control are a HUGE benefit as well.

The technical team is extremely knowledgeable and helpful as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

It is a minor quibble, but the inability to create Swagger 2 / OpenAPI 2 compliant endpoints makes it cumbersome to use in conjunction with Microsoft's Azure or Power Platform. Though, I see that as more of a problem with Microsoft than Dreamfactory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

It eliminates the need to create custom-written API endpoints to access our data services. Dreamfactory allows us to rapidly connect to our onsite MSSQL databases and make the data accessible to our internal web applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about DreamFactory?

Very intuitive gui which makes developer job easier. Have been using dream factory to generate apis for MySQL. It helps in decreasing the work of developer to generate corresponding APIs for a given db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

Nothing as of now. Very great work by dream factory team to help the developers to complete their APIs calls in no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a integration through which the pipeline is run. On top of integration layer we have a reporting layer which helps the client to know about their payroll reports and so on. For calling the methods as an API in reporting layer we are using Dream factory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about DreamFactory?

The support/sales team are great, the GUI is fairly intuitive. We have a very limited use case and this was set up for us by an implementer, but the elements we need to look at on occasion are simple to locate and understand. It has never failed to be operating in the 4 years we have it working for our Salesforce integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DreamFactory?

It's not scalable in terms of pricing, our setup is very small in terms of what it processes, it would be nice to be able to scale this based on the small number of transactions we are handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DreamFactory solving and how is that benefiting you?

Integration between an ageing ERP and the modern Salesforce CRM platform. It benefits us as we don't have to spend lots of time keying information into multiple systems, which would require a larger administration team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.