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Unmapped Landscape
Nobody has the full map. The integration landscape exists only as tribal knowledge.
IMS SaigonThe Enterprise Integration Platform: Ending Point-to-Point Spaghetti
Design canonical integration architectures using API Management, Azure Logic Apps, and Service Bus messaging.
- enterprise integration platform
- iPaaS
- Azure Logic Apps
- API Management
How Every Company Gets Spaghetti
Nobody designs point-to-point chaos — it accumulates, one reasonable decision at a time. Five years later, a typical mid-size enterprise runs 200+ connections, and the symptoms are universal:
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Fear of Change
Changes are frightening. Upgrading the ERP means testing every unknown consumer.
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Vanishing Errors
Errors vanish silently. A failed nightly file transfer is discovered when a customer complains.
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Bespoke Everything
Every integration is bespoke. Different formats, error handling, and security — N systems approach N² interfaces.
The Platform Answer
Modern integration platforms standardize four core capabilities:
API Management
Every system exposes capabilities through governed, versioned, secured APIs in a discoverable catalog. Consumers integrate against contracts, not databases.
Messaging & Eventing
Asynchronous backbone that decouples producers from consumers in time and availability. System A being down no longer breaks system B.
Workflow & Transformation
Orchestrated processes and data mapping implemented in a standard tool with standard patterns, not custom scripts on forgotten servers.
Observability & Governance
End-to-end tracing of every message, alerting on failures, a registry of every integration with an owner. The map exists because it is the runtime.
Reference Architecture on Azure
Events vs APIs
Events for facts, APIs for questions. "Order placed" is published once; consumers subscribe. "What is credit status?" is an API call.
Dead-Letter Queues
Turn silent failures into managed incidents: every undeliverable message is captured, alerted, and re-processable after the fix.
Legacy Adapters
Wrap systems that can't speak modern protocols behind the same standards, so consumers never know the difference.
The Business Case & Migration
Clients typically see three effects within the first year: integration delivery time drops 50–70%, incident detection moves from days to minutes, and system replacement becomes feasible. When every consumer uses the catalog contract, swapping the system behind it is an implementation detail.
We migrate spaghetti to platform with the strangler discipline: discover and map the existing connections, route new integrations through the platform from day one, then migrate existing connections opportunistically — highest-pain interfaces first. The N² tangle shrinks while the business keeps running.
Untangle Your Landscape
Request an integration landscape assessment — we map your current connections, quantify the risk, and deliver a phased platform roadmap.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an ESB reborn?
No. Classic ESBs centralized logic into a monolithic broker. Modern platforms centralize standards and observability while keeping integrations as independent, individually deployable workflows — cloud-native economics with governance.
Azure Integration Services or a third-party iPaaS?
For Microsoft-centric estates, Azure Integration Services offers the best cost and identity integration. iPaaS products earn their license when you need hundreds of SaaS connectors out of the box.
How do we prevent the platform team becoming the new bottleneck?
Self-service with guardrails: application teams build their own integrations from approved templates; the platform team owns the paved road, review gates, and shared services.
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