Huawei Cloud: Named a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service Four Years Running
Jun 04, 2025
Recently, Gartner® unveiled its Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service report. Marking a significant milestone to us, Huawei Cloud for its cutting-edge application and data integration platform, ROMA Connect, secured its place in the Visionary quadrant for the first time, which makes Huawei Cloud the only Asian vendor to be recognized in the Magic Quadrant for iPaaS for four consecutive years.
“Gartner defines integration platform as a service (iPaaS) as a vendor-managed cloud service that enables end users to implement integrations between applications, services and data sources, both internal and external to their organization.” Huawei Cloud ROMA Connect is a next-generation, enterprise-grade intelligent iPaaS platform designed to unify applications, messages, events, data, APIs, and devices. It empowers businesses to accelerate digital transformation with an integrated, intelligent approach. Huawei Cloud has made AI a cornerstone of ROMA Connect's capabilities. It also serves as an AI orchestration tool for customers building AI-driven solutions on Huawei Cloud.
Full-Stack Integration Innovation: Powering Digital Transformation
ROMA Connect offers comprehensive, AI-driven integration solutions tailored for enterprise needs.
Intelligent orchestration and flow integration: ROMA Connect uniquely blends AI for integration and integration for AI to transform enterprise workflows. AI Assistant swiftly generates integration flows and predicts keywords in real time, reducing development cycles from weeks to days, while built-in AI connectors support major AI models like Pangu, enabling rapid interconnection between traditional and AI applications. The platform is also fully compatible with Milvus and supports customized Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to optimize domain knowledge and reduce AI hallucinations.
Open ecosystem and asset management: ROMA Connect Asset Center facilitates asset sharing through a one-stop portal. Equipped with over 100 built-in connectors and more than 200 industry-specific templates, the platform empowers enterprises to rapidly deploy out-of-the-box, scenario-based solutions—ranging from supply chain collaboration to intelligent marketing. This streamlined approach not only simplifies integration development but also facilitates lightweight, centralized management and operations, accelerating the effective transfer, reuse, and scaling of knowledge and best practices across the organization.
One-stop hybrid integration platform: ROMA Connect breaks down data silos by unifying data, APIs, messages, and devices on a single platform, simplifying integration workflows. It supports seamless connectivity across public clouds, private clouds, and edge environments, with compatibility for over 100 heterogeneous data sources and industrial protocols, enhancing integration speed by a factor of 10.
Industry-Specific Impact: Leading Intelligent Integration Innovation
Leveraging Huawei's decade-long expertise and customer-driven innovation, ROMA Connect now serves over 3,000 large and medium enterprises globally across Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Africa. Key industry breakthroughs include:
Finance: Reduces integration costs and boosts iteration efficiency with heterogeneous system compatibility, non-intrusive re-architecture, and intelligent deployment for seamless cloud migration and reliable integration buses.
Manufacturing: Eliminates IT/OT data silos, improves production efficiency by 40%, lowers inventory costs, and enables intelligent supply chain collaboration through unified APIs and real-time data streaming.
Transportation: Enhances airport digital operations and passenger experience via efficient internal and external system communication through level-1 and level-2 buses.
Electric power: Implements intelligent collaboration across cloud, edge, and devices, enabling plug-and-play power distribution, rapid data collection, and sub-100 ms latency data sharing at the perception, platform, and application layers.
Government: Supports e-Government and smart city initiatives by providing unified integration of data, messages, and APIs tailored for scenario-specific smart applications.
Industry Recognition
· 1 in IDC China Enterprise Integration Platform (iPaaS) Market Share
· Software Industry Cutting-Edge Technology Award by China Software Industry Association
· Rated Excellent in Full-stack Enterprise-level Integration Platform by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
· Recognized for Software Trustworthiness by MIIT Fifth Electronics Research Institute
· Assessed as Advanced API Full Lifecycle Management Service by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
· Best Practice Award of the Trustworthy Cloud PaaS by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
· Awarded Trusted Cloud User Case Best Practices by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
AI + iPaaS: Ushering in a New Era of Intelligent Integration
In today's AI-driven digital transformation landscape, enterprise integration transcends technology—it is a strategic enabler for intelligent service chain governance. Huawei Cloud ROMA Connect leverages an end-to-end intelligent engine and cutting-edge AI to continuously expand integration boundaries through architectural governance. Upcoming innovations include:
AI-native integration agent: Simplifies integration design, development, deployment, configuration tuning, fault detection, and routine O&M with AI-powered capabilities, enhancing governance efficiency.
MCP lifecycle management: Unifies MCP integration assets under one intelligent conversion engine, bridges the language gap between diverse models and service systems, and standardizes governance of subscribed MCP servers, resolving fragmented multi-source integration challenges.
AI Gateway: Evolves API integration management with foundation model APIs, token-level traffic control to prevent service overloads, and full-link audit and traceability to meet compliance and cost control needs.
iPaaS is no longer just a connection tool—it is the intelligent, open, and adaptive central nervous system that drives agile, efficient digital transformation. Huawei Cloud ROMA Connect is committed to advancing intelligent iPaaS innovation, building the next-generation hybrid integration platform that is more efficient, secure, and intelligent for enterprises worldwide.
Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, Published 19 May 2025
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