IFTTT Manufacturing Reviews & Insights

Score6.7 out of 10

54 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for IFTTT are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Business Problems Solved

IFTTT has proven to be a valuable tool for many users, helping them streamline routine processes and automate tasks to improve efficiency and save time. Users from various sectors, including youth ministry, nonprofit organizations, and businesses, have found it particularly useful for coordinating multiple apps and automating posts between different social media platforms. By connecting social media with off-site platforms, IFTTT enables automated publishing of content, making it easier for organizations to reach their target audience effectively.

Individuals within organizations also benefit from IFTTT by using it for personal tasks such as tracking work hours and syncing social media platforms for marketing campaigns. Marketers find IFTTT helpful in maximizing social media impact through automation, social listening, competitive intelligence, reminders, and updates. It allows them to manage social marketing campaigns across multiple platforms seamlessly.

Clients have reported increased productivity with the help of IFTTT, using it to natively post on multiple social channels and back up posts. With features like tracking worked hours and setting up automated reminders and alerts, users can stay organized and ensure important tasks are not overlooked.

Furthermore, IFTTT proves its value in improving efficiency by automating data input into other systems, reducing the need for manual cross-referencing. It also facilitates communication between automation and IoT devices, providing a flexible foundation for integration.

Users appreciate IFTTT's library of integrated systems that allow them to connect different platforms and fill in gaps in their existing software solutions. With its automation capabilities, IFTTT becomes an excellent tool to orchestrate workflows across different SaaS products while maintaining a user-friendly experience.

Social media strategists utilize IFTTT for social media automation purposes such as automatically posting Instagram content to platforms like Pinterest or Tumblr. Monitoring website changes is another use case where users rely on IFTTT to promptly notify clients about any modifications made.

Overall, whether it's automating routine tasks or connecting various systems together, IFTTT offers an array of use cases that cater to different user needs. The ability to leverage existing recipes and build custom solutions makes IFTTT a valuable tool for enhancing productivity and efficiency.

IFTTT Reviews

3 Reviews

ManufacturingConsumer Electronics1Consumer Goods2

A good application connector

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

August 22, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used IFTTT for some of our prototyping before we built out a more complicated orchestration tool behind the scenes. It was a great way for us to connect a couple of services we've built in the past so that we can easily move things up to production.

Pros

Quick and light weight.
Fairly reliable.
Easy to set up and adopt new connections.

Cons

Wish it had a better way to chain commands. It only has a single step and is not very easy for complex operations.
It's a little too basic and has issues working with a more complex use case. When you have requirements to do transformations, it is not the right solution.
Some less used integrations break since they aren't used regularly. Support isn't always up to date on all integrations.

Likelihood to Recommend

For simple operations, IFTTT is a great tool for you to quickly set up a connection between services and control this via a rules based engine. When your needs gets more complicated you will have to directly integrate, but it's great for the initial testing and set up.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (Consumer Goods company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

IFTTT for Enterprise Integration

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IFFT is being used as part of our automation back end. We are currently using it as a bridge between multiple services such as Google and different sensors that do not normally talk to each other. We are using IFFT to publish data to Google Docs and read in data from other services.

Pros

Very simple interface.
Connects to a multitude of services and sensors.
Allows integration between services that would normally require expensive custom solutions.

Cons

The interface is sometimes too simple.
There are some clunky issues when you want to do more than one event at a time.
Not open for full customization.

Likelihood to Recommend

IFTTT really shines in two major places. First, integration between two platforms that are not normally integrated, like Google and Twitter, for example. You could have any tweet with specific keywords dumped to a Google spreadsheet and then have that sheet loaded into a DB for data mining. The second is the ability to call a Web Hook.

Kyle Kochtan

Technical Lead in Information Technology at Newell Rubbermaid (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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IFTTT: For all your things!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use IFTTT to facilitate communication between automation and IoT devices and services that would otherwise not be compatible with each other. It provides a flexible foundation for this integration. The ability to customize the connectivity for our needs makes it a good option when the hardware is not an option.

Pros

The biggest feature is the ability to connect multiple devices that would not otherwise be able to be controlled.
The ability to script actions between applets and devices based upon input from each other is vital to providing a fluid automated IoT system of separate things.

Cons

Integration with more services
Even if on a limited basis, allow custom applets to regular users.

Likelihood to Recommend

The only scenario I can see IFTTT not being appropriate for a task is when the devices are all able to interact together natively. However, some of the functionality available in IFTTT applets could always be used to improve a connected experience. IFTTT is well suited anywhere there is a need to bridge services or devices. Such as Alexa maintaining my ToDo list, or an activity monitor that provides notifications under certain circumstances on social media.

Verified User

Technician in Engineering (Consumer Electronics company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience