Lobster Data Platform Features
API Construction (4)
API Testing
Provides an environment for users to rest their API's functionality, efficiency, and data accuracy.
Data Security
Allows users to secure access to data. Provides additional support for security practices like IP whitelisting, attack mitigation, and data encryption.
Orchestration
Allows administrators to create APIs that utilize multiple backend resources and databases.
Scalability
Expands functionality while maintaining balanced loads. Serves growing demand without reducing functionality.
API Management (5)
Traffic Control
Limits access to suspicious visitors and monitors for traffic spikes to prevent overloads like DDoS attacks.
Logs/Documentation
Records details related to usage and functionality for analytics and reporting.
API Monitoring
Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.
Monetization
Allows administrators to manage pricing and billing of API integration with customer applications.
Gateway
Provides a dashboard for users to manage, govern, and secure their API.
Data Integration (3)
App Integration
The functionality at which APIs integrate with and perform within third-party applications.
Data Transformation
Translates complex datasets and backend systems into formats that can be interpreted by applications.
Plugins
Provides additional functionality for increased security, analytics, monitoring, and other features not included in the native feature set.
Data (4)
Information Tracking
Tracks information through various sources
Data Duplication
Controls data duplication
Security
Allows users to securely exchange and validate documents.
Scheduling
Schedules document downloads
Logistics (5)
Scaling
Easily scale to meet your organization's needs
Automation
Automate various processes
Communication
Standardize communication for your team.
Copy
Copies files
Integration
Integrate with your ERP system.
Functionality (19)
Asynchronous Messaging
Allows sender and reciever to operate independently at separate times.
Language Support
Supports programming languages such as Java, C, or Python. Support for front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Cloud-based Messaging
Functions through a cloud-based messaging service without on-premise infrastructure.
Latency
Has minimal delay between input and feedback.
Extraction
Extract data from the designated source(s) like relational databases, JSON files, and XML files.
Transformation
Cleanse and re-format extracted data to the needed target format.
Loading
Load reformatted data into target database, data warehouse, or other storage location.
Automation
Arrange ETL processes to occur automatically on needed time schedule (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly).
Scalability
Capable of scaling processing power up or down based on ETL volume.
Data visualisation
Creates a visual map of the data from the source to the target database for the user to see.
Data transformation
Transforms the data into the appropriate format before being transferred.
Data migration
Moves the data from one database to another.
Process various formats
The software can process numerous type of data and formats.
No-code functionality
The software can create the data map with no use of code. This is typically done via drag-and-drop.
Data manipulation
Allows the data to be merged or executed before being mapped and transformed.
Analytics
Offers built-in analytics functionality.
Reporting
Offers reporting functionality.
Data Exchange
Enables electronic document transfer between businesses and trading partners.
Data Mapping
Translates the EDI data back and forth, basically converts internal data format into the EDI standard format.
Integration (3)
Application Integration
Allows messages and data to integrate directly into applications using APIs.
Data Integration
Breadth of standard integrations to first, second, and third-party data providers.
Plugins and integrations
Allows for additional features and functionalities in the form of pre-packaged integrations and plug-ins.
Management (12)
Policies and Controls
Ability to control file/folder access by user or group, external sharing permissions, editing policies, device location restrictions, sharing by device, etc.
Security Monitoring
Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.
Activity Monitoring
Actively monitor status of work stations either on-premise or remote.
Reporting
View ETL process data via reports and visualizations like charts and graphs.
Auditing
Record ETL historical data for auditing and potential data correction needs.
Workflow Management
Enables end-to-end automation of key EDI processes without any user intervention.
Exception Handling
Detects the EDI errors and instantly notifies and alerts the transmission issue.
Real Time Reporting
Provides a real-time customizable dashboard that allows users to track, monitor and manage transactions.
Hierarchy Management
Captures and manages data hierarchy and definitions.
Reference Data Management
Helps integrate external and internal reference data such as industry codes, entity identifiers, country codes etc used to categorize information across systems.
Data Lineage
Helps understand the origination and route of data along with the transformations happening across various domains.
Metadata Management
Provides context and information for data assets stored across domains and ensures adherence to established policies and processes.
Development (4)
API Testing
Provides an environment for users to test their API's functionality, efficiency, and data accuracy.
Data Security
Allows users to secure access to data. Provides additional support for security practices like IP whitelisting, attack mitigation, and data encryption.
Orchestration
Allows developers to create APIs that utilize multiple backend resources and databases.
Scalability
Expands functionality while maintaining balanced loads. Serves growing demand without reducing functionality.
Collaboration (3)
Design Management
Allows administrators to set API design guidelines and best practices.
Access Control
Enables administrators to set permissions for team members to access workspaces.
Visibility
Allows members across teams to view progress and updates throughout the design process.
Integrations (2)
Third Party Integration
Allows integrations to business applications such as accounting packages, ERP software, E- commerce systems etc to streamline order processing workflow.
BI Tools Integration
Allows integration with third party reporting and business intelligence applications.
Security (7)
Communication Protocols
Supports encrypted file transfer protocols like VAN, AS2, FTP/sFTP and HTTPS.
EDI Standards
Built-in support for a wide variety of traditional and modern EDI standards as well as the ability to define custom standards.
Data Encryption
Employs data encryption both at rest and in transit.
Security Standards
Comply to key industry standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA etc to protect and safeguard data.
Communication Protocol
Supports secure communication protocols like FTPS, SFTP etc
Data Governance
Encompasses of policies, principles and qualities to promote access to accurate and certified master data.
Data Masking
Helps mask or hide critical information to prevent unauthorized access.
Support (1)
EDI Testing
Creates a test environment for EDI transactions to verify them and ensure they adhere to industry compliance requirements.
Development (7)
Real-Time Integration
Supports event or transaction based integrations that react to changes in real-time
API Designer
Provides a web-based interface for designing, documenting, and testing APIs.
Flow Designer
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
Facilitiates API development and integrations with prebuilt connectors, templates, and examples.
Custom Connectors
Provides the ability to create connectors from existing services and APIs in catalog.
Reusable connectors
Provides prebuilt, reusable connectors and workflows for all user integration requirements.
Multi - tenant architecture
Enables multiple tenants (customers) to securely share physical computing resources.
Management (5)
Monitoring & Notification
Console for monitoring resource utilization, system health, ability to start and stop processes, etc.
Routing And Orchestration
Enables data routing on configuration basis and management of complex workflows through an orchestration engine.
Data Mapping
Facilitates to and fro data map according to the data model between applications/web services.
Data Transformation
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
Supports and oversees the management of API products across their full lifecycle
Integration Options (4)
Data Virtualization
Integrates data from disparate sources, without physical data movement
Managed File Transfers
Provides one or more methods to securely transfer data from one location to another through a network
Big Data Processing
Provides integration to BigData sources such as Hadoop and other NoSQL sources (MongoDB, Cassandra and HBase)
EDI
Provides Integrations to EDI service providers.
Functionality (4)
Multi-Domain
Centralizes the management of multiple domains of master data which includes product, customer, vendor, asset, location and pricing.
Match & Merge
Matches master data records and merges them into a single accurate record across source systems.
Relationship Mapping
Shows relationships between records and entries, defined in a repository model.
User Interface
Provides a simple customizable design environment to develop custom UIs using simple drag and drop actions.
Deployment (2)
Hybrid
Supports deployment of integration apps both on-premisis and cloud environments/
Cloud to Cloud
Supports deployment of integration apps to a managed cloud environment
Development - API Platforms (4)
API Testing
Provides an environment for users to test their API's functionality, efficiency, and data accuracy.
Scalability
Expands functionality while maintaining balanced loads. Serves growing demand without reducing functionality.
Orchestration
Allows developers to create APIs that utilize multiple backend resources and databases.
Data Security
Allows users to secure access to data. Provides additional support for security practices like IP whitelisting, attack mitigation, and data encryption.
Collaboration - API Platforms (3)
Visibility
Allows members across teams to view progress and updates throughout the design process.
Access Control
Enables administrators to set permissions for team members to access workspaces.
Design Management
Allows administrators to set API design guidelines and best practices.
API Management - API Platforms (5)
API Monitoring
Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.
Traffic Control
Limits access to suspicious visitors and monitors for traffic spikes to prevent overloads like DDoS attacks.
Gateway
Provides a dashboard for users to manage, govern, and secure their API.
Logs/Documentation
Records details related to usage and functionality for analytics and reporting.
Monetization
Allows administrators to manage pricing and billing of API integration with customer applications.
Agentic AI - Message Queue (MQ) (4)
Autonomous Task Execution
Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input
Multi-step Planning
Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes
Cross-system Integration
Works across multiple software systems or databases
Proactive Assistance
Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting





