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One challenge I encountered in the past was syncing data between a SaaS software I built and …

One challenge I encountered in the past was syncing data between a SaaS software I built and customers' ERP systems. Building these integrations was an absolute pain because there often is no publicly available documentation. This means you need to pay an SAP consultant 300 dollars per hour to tell you all the things normal apis have in their public documentation. Is this something you plan to address? Or are you just making already usable apis even easier to use? Btw great product! Just really curious about a personal pain point of mine!

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Hey everyone, we are Bastien and Robin from Nango ( https://www.nango.dev ). We take care of the annoyances of external APIs (167 and counting) so you can quickly build custom integrations for your SaaS, while retaining full control over how they work. 2 min demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/d04c67b47e284e86b91b4b99fba548ec SaaS engineering teams face a tough choice: they can build each integration in-house from scratch, which gives them full control but takes a lot of time and maintenance effort. Or they can use pre-built solutions, which are fast and easy but less flexible and might not fulfill all customer needs. Nango combines the best of both worlds. We let you quickly ship custom integrations without building complex infrastructure or diving deep into the quirks of each API. You control the business logic, data models, and customer-specific configurations, like custom field m…

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Would be great if the Nango team can address it but my experience as that "300 dollars per hour" consultant (although I never got to see anywhere close to that) is that most ERP systems are heavily customized that it would be hard to auto-generate endpoints/documentation off of it. Have you had a chance to go through your customers' ERP systems?

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We've noticed the same pain point and we are providing increasingly better support for ERPs. Realistically, it takes time to build expertise on each of them, but we'll get there!

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