Introducing Destinations: data storage, your way

Data security has been our top priority from day one.

It’s why we invested heavily in our infrastructure, encryption, and compliance frameworks. And it’s why we continually evolve our platform to meet the highest standards for data protection.

For example, we achieved GDPR compliance before onboarding our first customer. And leading AI companies like Mistral now rely on our integrations’ access control lists (ACLs) to provide secure enterprise search products.

Today, we’re excited to announce a new offering that furthers our commitment to data security: Destinations. It gives Merge customers the ability to store data directly in their own environment instead of Merge’s server.

This is a huge milestone for Merge and it’s a ground-breaking moment for the unified API space. 

We’re the first and only unified API platform that supports this capability, making our platform best positioned to support enterprise company’s strictest data security requirements.

How Destinations works

Destinations gives you the choice to store data in your preferred data warehouse or database instead of Merge’s infrastructure.

Merge continues to handle all the processing and normalization of your integration data but will stream it directly into the database you choose and provide.

For example, if your company uses a Postgres database, you can configure Destinations so that all normalized data is stored in that Postgres instance.

Destinations is also fully compatible with both multi-tenant and single-tenant, giving you the flexibility to choose the hosting model that best fits your security, compliance, and infrastructure needs.

When it makes sense to use Destinations

Whether Destinations is right for you will depend on your individual use case and security requirements.

Here’s when and why you should use it.

Enterprise-grade security and compliance

‍Destinations is designed for companies with strict data and compliance requirements. For example some may have security postures forbidding data residency in third-party systems, even if encrypted. By storing data in their own environment, companies can abide by these strict requirements.

Control over data hosting and data access

‍With Destinations, you choose where your data is stored, providing flexibility and strengthening data control. You can also revoke access to your database at any time through your database provider, ensuring full control over data access.

Access integration data faster‍

For large data syncs, streaming data directly in your own environment allows you to access that data sooner, as you don’t need to wait for data to sync to Merge’s servers before calling it.

How to get started with Destinations

Destinations is in closed beta and available for those on our professional or enterprise plan.

Destinations also currently supports Merge’s file storage category and Postgres as a data storage option, but we plan to expand support to additional data storage platforms and Unified API categories in the future.

If you’re interested in participating in the beta or have specific requirements for your data infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.