Reale: iPaaS tools like Zapier struggle with human approval workflows
Brian Reale · 1094 How he bought 15 people off cap table, hit $9m in ARR in workflow space · Jul 23, 2018 · at 3:18
Brian Reale, founder and CEO of ProcessMaker, differentiates his business process management platform from iPaaS tools like Zapier and SnapLogic.
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“Those kinds of companies won't do very well with the approval and rejection part of a workflow.”
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