Succeeding with Open Source

New Standards in Integration

Although integrations are a necessary and challenging issue for IT organizations, they are far less onerous today than they would have been even three years ago. In the recent past, each integration project had to be handled as a one-off project, requiring custom integration products that imposed proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs) to link applications. Every product that needed to share data with another would require an analysis of its data structures, any available APIs it offered, and then a plan of attack to create a method to retrieve data from the product. That was for one side of the integration. Naturally, there was another product on the other side that required a similar planning process. ...