# Integration Platform as a Service
Integration Platform as a Service, or iPaaS, is a hosted layer for connecting applications, APIs, events, and data flows. It supplies connectors, transformations, orchestration, monitoring, and governance without requiring every integration to be built from scratch.
## Notebook role
The automation comparison on [[Scanned_20260730-1913]], PDF page 7, spans lightweight workflow tools and more enterprise-oriented integration platforms: [[Zapier]], [[Make]], [[Automate.io]], [[Microsoft Power Automate]], and [[Tray.ai]]. The notebook was tracing a lineage from personal automation toward a general coordination fabric.
## Relationships
[[Workflow Automation]] · [[Robotic Process Automation]] · [[Application Programming Interface|API]] · [[Control-Plane Continuity]]
## Boundary
Platform comparison does not establish deployment, account connection, data transfer, or institutional partnership.
## Source
- [[Scanned_20260730-1913]], PDF page 7.