Between Product and Partnerships Podcast

Conversations with product, partnership, and engineering leaders about how to build, support,
and scale integrations and SaaS ecosystems.

Creating a High-Impact Integration Strategy for 2025

As SaaS companies navigate 2025, building integration strategies that drive growth, retain customers, and adapt to evolving partner ecosystems is essential.

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Developing Standards in The Rapidly Evolving Field of AI

In this episode, we speak with Heather Flanagan, Principal at Spherical Cow Consulting, and Shon Urbas, CTO of Pandium, about the real-world challenges of building integrations that involve identity, compliance, and data governance.

Navigating Integration Challenges in Cybersecurity: Insights from Stellar Cyber

In this episode we sit down with Kayleen Standridge, Senior Technical Product Manager at Stellar Cyber to discuss the unique challenges of building integrations in cybersecurity.

Empowering Consumers and Partners: The Product Principles Behind Carputty’s Platform Success

In this episode, we sit down with Archna Carlstone, Head of Product at Carputty to discuss building, scaling and evolving SaaS platforms.

Designing for Developers: Integrations, AI, and UX at Canva

In this discussion, Cristina sits down with Faria Anzum, Developer Experience Product Design Lead at Canva, to explore her approach to SaaS integrations, developer experience, as well as the impact of AI on building scalable partner ecosystems.

Lessons in Resilient Integration Design and Building Integrations That Break (Gracefully)

In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, Cristina Flaschen sat down with Shrijit Patel, Technical Product Manager at Chronograph, to talk about building integration infrastructure, developing anti-fragile systems, and bridging the technical gap as a backend-focused PM.

From AppExchange to Canva: Lessons from Two Decades in Ecosystems

In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, we sit down with Indy Sen, Product Marketing Manager for Ecosystem at Canva, to explore what it takes to build a thriving SaaS platform.

How to Overcome and Avoid Integration Scaling Pains

In this episode, we’re joined by integration experts Venkat Iyer (Talkdesk), Shon Urbas (Pandium), and Trevor Schueren (Workable) for a deep dive into the strategies behind successfully scaling SaaS integration efforts.

Build vs Buy: How to Choose the Right Integration Strategy for Your B2B SaaS Business

Justuno is a website marketing automation platform that's tried a lot of different strategies for speeding up the development of integrations their customers need.

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Why You Still Need Integrations and Integration Teams in the Age of MCP

Despite the growing excitement around MCP and AI-native protocols, there’s widespread confusion about what these tools actually replace. This blog breaks down the differences between MCP and traditional integrations, and explains why integration teams remain essential for supporting real-world systems, logic, and scale.

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Pandium Product Updates June 2025

This month's release includes new connectors, including connectors for all the leading LLMs, updates to auth-only connections, filtered lists and QOL improvements.