Enterprise System Integration: Connecting the Platforms Your Business Runs On
Enterprise technology estates are rarely planned from scratch. They accumulate over years of acquisitions, department-level purchasing decisions, and successive IT strategies. The result is a landscape of disconnected systems — SAP for finance, Salesforce for sales, Workday for HR, a legacy system nobody fully understands for operations, and several spreadsheets filling the gaps between them. Data moves between these systems through manual exports, scheduled batch files, ageing middleware that one contractor built five years ago, or not at all.
We replace this fragile, manual integration landscape with reliable, monitored, enterprise-grade integration layers. Whether you need to connect two systems or orchestrate data flows across a dozen, we design and build the integration architecture that makes your enterprise technology estate work as a coherent whole.
Our Enterprise Integration Methodology
Enterprise integration projects fail when teams underestimate the complexity hidden in existing data flows. We invest heavily in discovery to ensure the integration design accounts for the edge cases that surface in production.
- Integration Landscape Assessment: We map your entire system landscape — every platform, every data flow, every batch process, every manual workaround. This map becomes the foundation for integration architecture decisions and identifies the highest-value integration opportunities.
- Integration Architecture Design: Based on your landscape and requirements, we design the appropriate integration pattern — point-to-point APIs for simple bilateral connections, ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) patterns for complex multi-system orchestration, or event-driven architecture for real-time data distribution. The architecture document includes data transformation specifications, error handling strategy, and monitoring requirements.
- Legacy Middleware Assessment and Replacement: If you have existing middleware — BizTalk, MuleSoft, custom integration scripts — we assess its current state, identify what it does well, and design a migration path that replaces it incrementally rather than in a risky big-bang cutover.
- Implementation, Testing, and Cutover: Integration code built with comprehensive error handling and retry logic, tested against realistic data volumes and edge cases, and deployed with a defined cutover plan that includes rollback procedures.
What You Will Receive
A reliable, documented enterprise integration layer that eliminates manual data transfer and provides visibility into data flow health across your technology estate.
- ERP integration (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365) with bi-directional data synchronisation
- CRM integration (Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics CRM) connecting sales data to operations and finance
- HRIS and payroll connectors (Workday, BambooHR, ADP) with automated employee lifecycle events
- Legacy middleware replacement with modern, maintainable integration architecture
- Integration monitoring dashboard with alerting, data flow visualisation, and error quarantine
Common Enterprise Integration Scenarios
A financial services firm needs real-time data flow between their trading platform, risk management system, and regulatory reporting engine — with complete audit trails for FCA compliance. A logistics company needs their WMS, TMS, and customer portal sharing order status and inventory data in real time — replacing overnight batch files that leave customer-facing data a day behind reality. An NHS trust needs their patient administration system, electronic health records, and referral management system sharing patient demographics through PDS integration — with appropriate information governance controls.
These are integration challenges we have solved. The pattern varies, but the discipline is the same: understand the data flows thoroughly, design for the edge cases, build with monitoring from the start, and deploy with a rollback plan.
Why Software Development London
We have replaced ageing BizTalk implementations, migrated from legacy ESB platforms, and built integration layers connecting SAP, Salesforce, Workday, and proprietary enterprise systems. We understand that enterprise integration is not just a technical challenge — it requires understanding the business processes the integrations support, the data quality issues that exist in source systems, and the organisational change management that accompanies new integration patterns. We plan for all of it.
Need to connect your enterprise systems? Book a free consultation to discuss your integration landscape.
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