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Application integration
Business applications joined so an event in one triggers the right action in another: a won deal creates a project, a delivery raises an invoice.
05Data & integration · iPaaS
iPaaS and integration platform development.
An integration platform is the switchboard between a company's systems: it carries data from each one to the others that need it.
We build it to order, around the way you work, or extend and connect the one you already have.
01What it is
In plain words.
An integration platform is the switchboard between a company's systems: it carries data from each one to the others that need it.
Systems connected one pair at a time become a tangle. Ten systems can need forty-five separate links, each written differently by someone who has since left, and when one system is upgraded nobody knows what will break.
An integration platform replaces the tangle with a hub. Each system connects once, flows between them are defined in one place, and every message is logged, retried on failure and visible to the people responsible.
02What it includes
Every part, explained.
7 parts. Each can be built by itself; together they are one system.
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API integration
Connections through each system's programming interface, with authentication, rate limits, versioning and error handling done properly once and reused.
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Data synchronisation
The same record kept identical across systems, one-way or both ways, with rules for which system wins a conflict and a log of every change.
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Workflow automation
Multi-step flows across systems with conditions, waits and approvals: the business process, not just the data transfer.
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System-to-system integration
Direct, dependable links where two systems must stay in close step, such as an ERP and a warehouse system, including file-based and message-queue exchanges.
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Enterprise integration
The patterns a large estate needs: an event bus, queues, transformation, routing, monitoring and replay, so integration is an operated service and not a set of scripts.
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Custom connectors
Adapters for the systems no product supports: the legacy database, the machine controller, the supplier portal, the in-house application.
Buy, extend or build?
Buy a hosted integration service if your systems are common cloud applications and your flows are simple. Build or self-host when integration must reach systems inside your network, when volumes make per-task pricing expensive, when data may not pass through a third party, or when the estate is large enough that integration is a core capability.
Where intelligence fits
Intelligence helps integration at the edges where formats are untidy: mapping fields between systems, reading documents that arrive as attachments, and matching records that have no shared key. The transport itself stays deterministic, since a message must arrive once and exactly as sent.
03What it works with
Never on an island.
A system is worth most when it shares its records with the ones beside it.
- API and systems integrationAn API is the doorway through which one piece of software asks another for something; systems integration is building and connecting those doorways.
- Business process automationBusiness process automation hands the repetitive steps of office work to software, so people do the parts that need a person.
- Enterprise resource planningAn ERP is the one system that records what a company owns, owes, buys, makes and sells, so every department works from the same numbers.
- Customer relationship managementA CRM is the one place a company keeps everything it knows about the people it sells to: who they are, what was said, what was offered and what happens next.
- Enterprise data platformsA data platform is the place where data from every system in a company is collected, cleaned and kept ready for reporting, analysis and AI.
Part of a family
Data, integration and automation: Systems that talk to each other, work that moves by itself, and numbers you can trust.
04How we build it
Five steps, in the open.
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Listen
You describe the work and where it hurts. We look at the systems and the data you have now.
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Specify
A written specification: what the system does, what it does not, what it connects to and how we will know it works. A clear quote before any work starts.
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Build in stages
A working piece at each stage, on real data, so you steer early. The part that matters most comes first.
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Move the data
Existing records mapped, cleaned of duplicates and reconciled against the old system before anything is switched off.
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Hand over
Training, documentation and the keys. Your team can run it, and we keep it working for as long as you want us to.
One set of records underneath
Customers, products, suppliers, people and stock are each defined once. A second system joins the first; it does not start a competing copy.
Runs where you decide
Your own servers, a private cloud or a cloud account that belongs to you. Customer, employee and financial data stays on infrastructure you control.
Yours to keep
You own the code, the data, the configuration and the documentation. There is no licence fee to us and nothing stopping another team from taking it on.
05Questions
Before you ask.
Questions about iPaaS
What is iPaaS in plain words?
A central service that connects your business applications, so data moves between them automatically. Each system plugs into the platform once, and the platform handles delivery, format conversion, errors and logging.
Can it connect to old or in-house systems?
Yes. Where no ready connector exists we write one, against a database, a file drop, a screen or whatever interface the old system offers.
What happens when an integration fails?
The message is kept, retried and, if it still fails, raised to a person with the reason. Nothing is silently lost, and failed messages can be replayed once the cause is fixed.
Guides
Plain-language guides on the problems this work solves.
- CRM, ERP, HRMS, CDP, PIM, WMS and the rest: thirty business systems explained in plain wordsBusiness systems · 8 min
- Custom software or off-the-shelf: how to decide whether to build, buy or extendBuild or buy · 3 min
- Custom CRM or off-the-shelf CRM: which does your sales team need?CRM · 3 min
- When does a company need a custom ERP?ERP · 3 min
- All 16 guides on this →
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