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API & Integration Platforms

What is API & Integrations Platforms?

An API (Application Programming Interface) allows software applications to communicate with each other. They offer a standardised way to request and transmit data between systems.

An integration platform is a unified solution that simplifies and manages the integration of different applications and systems. It allows you to centralise your API integrations in a single platform, so you only need to manage one API integration platform rather than multiple API integrations.

An integration platform is the heart of the business, handling data exchange, workflow automation and communication between essential systems. It often offers features such as API management, data mapping, security and monitoring.

It helps businesses connect systems, making them work together as one. For example, an integration platform can connect a CRM system with an ERP system so that customer data is automatically synchronised between them.

Do you need API & Integration Platforms?

Businesses typically need API & Integration Platforms when they face complex challenges or want to optimise their business processes.

Growing businesses often need to integrate different systems and applications. APIs allow proper integration to new solutions, enabling scalability, flexibility and automation. With easy integration, APIs and integration platforms create a modular architecture that prepares you for future changes in systems and applications.

APIs enable your business to automate data exchange between internal and external systems, such as external partners, suppliers and customers. This reduces the need for manual data entry and errors, improving data quality and efficiency while making it easier and faster to integrate new systems and solutions.

In general, the need for API & Integration Platforms is driven by a desire to improve efficiency, adapt to market demands and enable innovation through better data use and automation.

How we work with API & integration platforms

We start by understanding your current system landscape and existing integrations, and we work closely together to define your vision and requirements for the future.

We take into account technological limitations and platforms that need to be supported and integrate both Observability and security into the solution. We provide an integration platform that follows industry standards which is tailored to your needs.

Selected cases

Flexible Infrastructure via Containerization on Kubernetes

With Docker containers and Kubernetes, Fibia has a robust and flexible infrastructure

Flexible Service Integration to OpenNet's Platform

Fibia can now deliver Waoo products to new markets through integration with OpenNet.

Wholesale Platform for B2B Built on a REST API Platform

With a new B2B platform, Fibia is expanding its business into new territory and entering the wholesale market.

Automated Ordering Flows

With automated ordering flows, Fibia can now utilise their resources much better and provide the best possible service to their customers.

Integration Solution Through An Enterprise Service Bus

Fibia Enterprise Service BUS – Robust and flexible integration solution ensures stabile and effective operation

API Management Gateway Based on Apigee Edge

To support their digital transformation and innovation Clipper Group’s technical landscape needed to change to a hybrid solution for which an intermediate gateway for communication was necessary

Solution Merges Data Into the Cloud On AWS

GateHouse Logistics moves their Big Data Solution to AWS, and the company can now collect and distribute streams of GPS data in one solution.

API-First integration

API-First Integration is a development strategy that prioritises APIs as the central component of a solution. In this approach, the APIs are designed and developed first, and then web interfaces, apps, or other front-end solutions follow. By focusing on APIs, a structured and flexible method for integrating different systems and platforms is ensured. This approach enables your business to create solutions that can easily adapt to new technologies, third-party integrations, and future features without having to rework the existing infrastructure.

API-First Integration promotes scalability, improves maintainability, and allows developers to quickly add or change functionality without impacting the entire system. This approach also allows for a consistent user experience across platforms and applications, creating a more cohesive and efficient system.

Industry standards for the data format

Industry standards for data format refer to the established guidelines and norms that define how data should be structured and formatted to ensure consistency and compatibility between systems and applications.
These standards make it easier to integrate different technologies and platforms. By following established industry standards, your company can ensure that your data is compatible with external systems and vendors, while maintaining quality, security, and efficiency in handling data.

Standardisation reduces complexity, improves data accessibility and promotes faster development of solutions that can adapt to changing needs and technologies.

Cybersecurity

With increased regulatory requirements such as the EU's NIS2 directive, which places strict IT security requirements on companies, significant focus has been placed on working proactively with both security and IT architecture. To meet these demands, companies must ensure that their API and integrations not only support business goals but also meet necessary security standards. This creates a need to integrate security early in the design and implementation processes.

Today, a strong architecture must be able to protect against threats across systems and applications while complying with strict regulatory requirements. This means that organisations must work with a holistic security strategy, where all layers of the infrastructure, from APIs and applications to networks, are secured against potential attacks. This development emphasises that Cybersecurity is an integral part of the infrastructure and requires a continuous, proactive effort to protect data and systems.

Selection of technologies we work with

Spring Boot

Spring Boot is an open-source framework that simplifies building Java-based applications and RESTful APIs. By easily integrating a wide range of standard components and frameworks, you achieve a robust solution with minimal customisation. Spring Boot is part of Spring, which is an industry standard for delivering enterprise solutions in Java.

Azure API Management

Azure API Management is a cloud-based platform from Microsoft that helps create, publish, secure and monitor APIs. It ensures API access, feature implementation and performance monitoring, simplifying integration processes across systems.

Apigee

Apigee is an API management platform from Google that helps create, secure, and scale APIs. The platform offers features such as traffic control, analyses, security, and version control, making it easy to integrate and manage APIs in complex systems.

Selected articles

How to Create Business Value with a Microservice-Based Integration Platform.

In this article we highlight how a microservice-based integration platform can solve a number of typical challenges for those with a large - perhaps outdated - IT stack.

Webinar: Scale Your Business with Efficient and Stable Integrations

In this webinar we go through how to improve your knowledge on how an integration platform can optimise your IT infrastructure and business

APIs for B2B Customers Is Opening Up New Revenue Streams - but How?

The opportunities are there - to make it easier for your customers to utilise your company's services using software like Apigee to access the APIs.

If you want to know more, don't hesitate to reach out

Mikael Nordgren

Partner

mn@novataris.com +45 53 64 14 44