> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Overview
> Ampersand is a declarative platform for reading, writing, and subscribing to data in your customers' SaaS apps. Define your integrations once and skip the per-provider code.
A single [Ampersand](https://www.withampersand.com/) integration gives the following capabilities:
| Action | What it does |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Read** | Pull data from your customer's SaaS |
| **Write** | Push data to your customer's SaaS |
| **Subscribe** | Receive events (creates, deletes, and field changes) from your customer's SaaS |
Ampersand manages the full lifecycle for you, including auth, scheduled and on-demand syncs, retries, and error handling, so you can focus on your product. Here's an overview of the platform:
The key components include:
* **Manifest file:** an `amp.yaml` file, where you define all your integrations: API to connect to, objects and fields you want to read or write, and configuration options you'd like to expose to your customers.
* **Ampersand server:** a managed service that keeps track of each of your customer’s configurations, and makes the appropriate API calls to your customer's SaaS, while optimizing for cost, handling retries and error message parsing.
* **Embeddable UI components** with Ampersand, you can embed set-up, configuration, and management UIs that allow your end users to customize and manage their integrations.
* **Dashboard**: our dashboard allows you to monitor and troubleshoot your customers' integrations.
