{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Customers","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers","description":"Explore how businesses use Frends iPaaS and see how the low-code integration platform can help you integrate, automate, and grow your business.","language":"en","pubDate":"Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:00:01 GMT","item":[{"title":"Valjas: Eliminating 20+ hours of monthly manual work with automation","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/valjas","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/valjas\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Customer%20and%20Partners\/Customer%20Story%20Thumbnails\/valjas.png\" alt=\"Valjas: Eliminating 20+ hours of monthly manual work with automation\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p><span>For financial management specialists and modern accounting firm Valjas, automation was critical. Manual work has become a growing operational bottleneck with customer data spread across multiple systems and no integrations in place. <\/span><\/p>","category":"Finance","pubDate":"Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:00:01 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/valjas"},{"title":"Alvesta Municipality: Cutting build time from 1 week to 2 days while bringing integrations in-house","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/alvesta-municipality","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/alvesta-municipality\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Partners%20Logo%20(1).png\" alt=\"Alvesta Municipality: Cutting build time from 1 week to 2 days while bringing integrations in-house\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p>In a medium-sized Swedish municipality, two people are quietly transforming how an entire organization communicates with itself and its residents. There are no dramatic system failures in their story or a crisis that forced a rethink. What drove Alvesta Municipality to change was something subtler and, in many ways, more frustrating: a dependency that had become so embedded in everyday operations that the IT team had stopped noticing how much it was costing them.<\/p>","category":["Public Sector","Public Sector:hide"],"pubDate":"Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:35:04 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/alvesta-municipality"},{"title":"Spesia: Cutting 35% of integration costs by dropping the platform that charged per connector","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/spesia","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/spesia\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Kempower%20(1).png\" alt=\"Spesia: Cutting 35% of integration costs by dropping the platform that charged per connector\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p>Finland\u2019s second-largest special vocational institution has 14 locations, around 1,500 students and more than 700 staff. Getting data to move reliably between systems \u2014 student administration system, Active Directory, databases, reporting tools \u2014 is central to how Spesia operates. For years, that meant Boomi. And for years, every time the IT team needed to add a new integration, the same question came up: is this worth another connector fee?<\/p>","category":"Education","pubDate":"Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:20:21 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/spesia"},{"title":"Kempower: Powering growth with over 70 automated integrations","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/kempower","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/kempower\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Kempower.png\" alt=\"Kempower\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p><span>When DC fast-charging solutions manufacturer Kempower was established and soon became a publicly listed business, its IT team faced a challenge: build the company's technology foundation from scratch and make it scalable as the business grew at extraordinary speed.<\/span><\/p>","category":["Manufacturing","Manufacturing:hide"],"pubDate":"Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:28:57 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/kempower"},{"title":"Braem: Putting IT in the driver's seat with one platform for a 300-person truck specialist","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/braem","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/braem\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Braem%20(1).png\" alt=\"Braem Success Story Frends\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p><span>Braem Group is a Belgian specialist in everything trucks. Across five locations, the group sells and services MAN and Mercedes-Benz vehicles, runs an independent service facility, holds the regional MAN dealership concession, operates a spare parts division supplying customers across Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, and rents trucks on short- and long-term contracts.<\/span><\/p>","category":"Logistics","pubDate":"Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:22:48 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/braem"},{"title":"Bluefors: Scaling to 20+ integrations while reducing manual work with 10x faster processes","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/bluefors","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/bluefors\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Website\/Logo%20and%20Customer%20story\/bluefors.png\" alt=\"Bluefors: Scaling to 20+ integrations while reducing manual work with 10x faster processes\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p>As Bluefors grows globally, integration has become increasingly important for keeping systems and processes aligned.<\/p>","category":"Manufacturing","pubDate":"Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:26:35 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/bluefors"},{"title":"Savings Banks Group: Running 350+ processes with a team of two","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/savings-banks-group","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/savings-banks-group\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Savings%20Bank.png\" alt=\"Savings Bank\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p><span>The Savings Banks Group (S\u00e4\u00e4st\u00f6pankkiryhm\u00e4) is a Finnish banking group consisting of fourteen independent regional and local savings banks. While each bank operates autonomously and serves its local customer base, they share common core systems, products, and digital services coordinated by the Savings Banks\u2019 Union Coop.<\/span><\/p>","category":"Finance","pubDate":"Fri, 08 May 2026 07:32:03 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/savings-banks-group"},{"title":"Falu Municipality: Scaling from 20 to 100+ integrations while eliminating consultant dependency","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/falu-municipality-scaling-from-20-to-100-integrations-while-eliminating-consultant-dependency","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/falu-municipality-scaling-from-20-to-100-integrations-while-eliminating-consultant-dependency\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/falu%20kommun.png\" alt=\"Falu Municipality: Scaling from 20 to 100+ integrations while eliminating consultant dependency\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p>On a winter day in Falun, a resident checks the water temperature before heading out for a cold plunge in St\u00e5ngtj\u00e4rn, one of the region\u2019s lakes. It\u2019s a small moment \u2014 a quick decision made in seconds \u2014 but behind it sits a chain of integrations connecting systems, APIs and data sources across the municipality.<\/p>","category":"Public Sector","pubDate":"Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:23:09 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/falu-municipality-scaling-from-20-to-100-integrations-while-eliminating-consultant-dependency"},{"title":"Silta: Customers get instant HR system updates with hundreds of flawless integrations","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/silta","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/silta\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/Copy%20of%20frends%20ipaas%20bi%20integrations%20(11).png\" alt=\"Silta: Customers get instant HR system updates with hundreds of flawless integrations\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p>Silta, a leading Finnish HR and payroll service provider, uses the Frends iPaaS to automate the complex flow of data between hundreds of customer systems, ensuring reliability and efficiency.<\/p>","category":"HR","pubDate":"Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:23:18 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/silta"},{"title":"\u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik Municipality: Building shared automation solutions and delivering faster services to citizens","link":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/%C3%B6rnsk%C3%B6ldsvik-municipality-connects-legacy-systems-and-builds-shared-automation-solutions-with-frends","description":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> \n <a href=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/\u00f6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik-municipality-connects-legacy-systems-and-builds-shared-automation-solutions-with-frends\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/frends.com\/hubfs\/%C3%B6rnsk%C3%B6ldsvik.jpg\" alt=\"\u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik Municipality: Building shared automation solutions and delivering faster services to citizens\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\"> <\/a> \n<\/div> \n<p>\u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik Municipality (<em>\u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsviks kommun<\/em>) is located in northern Sweden\u2019s High Coast region and is home to around <strong>55,000 residents<\/strong>.<\/p> \n<p>Known for its innovative industries, strong community values, and stunning natural surroundings, the municipality combines tradition with progress \u2014 driving digital transformation to serve citizens better and build a smarter, more connected future.<\/p> \n<p>The municipality\u2019s IT development team, led by <strong>Michael Bergstr\u00f6m<\/strong>, is responsible for connecting a wide range of systems and automating processes across education, social services, infrastructure, and administrative operations.<\/p>","category":"Public Sector","pubDate":"Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:57:28 GMT","guid":"https:\/\/frends.com\/customers\/%C3%B6rnsk%C3%B6ldsvik-municipality-connects-legacy-systems-and-builds-shared-automation-solutions-with-frends"}]}}