Understand which integration pattern will help your business grow ??

The amount of niche SAAS products available are growing by the day. And businesses are growing faster than ever…

And as technology drives every aspect of modern business operations, companies are investing in more and more niche software tools to improve their tech ecosystem and add capabilities.

Which is a great thing, if done effectively. The most important question is how do we integrate these tools into our existing technology landscape?

Point-to-point integration is a suitable choice in the right situation.

And they may seem great to start with…

But unfortunately point-to-point integrations just aren't designed to keep up with quickly evolving companies. Especially if you’re looking at scaling your business.

You can easily get locked in to a piece of software simply because of how many things it's connected to. ??

And over time it causes the ecosystem to become a tangled web of connections making it difficult to maintain, or to fix if any one connection fails. ??

How do we tackle this problem?

Well there’s a better way to integrate your apps and move data between them.?

And that’s via an abstraction layer with a pub/sub messaging pattern. ?

Here is an article I wrote on which integration is best for you and your business.?

We discuss the pros and cons of point-to-point integration and we delve further into the solution we think will be most beneficial for your business to flourish.

If you’re after some quick reads on this topic, see the links below ??

The Pros of Point-To-Point?

The Cons of Point-to-Point

Why Use An Abstraction Layer?

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