By Fernando Moitinho
With the technological evolution we’ve witnessed over the past decades, one could think that, by now, we would have a more elegant solution to solve the integration problem. But the reality is that integrations continue to be one of the most challenging areas of application development.
And there are several reasons for that.
First and foremost, most applications in your stack were not designed to stick together by default. Long gone are the times when a company relied only on one software vendor to deal with most of their business areas. Plus, vendor APIs vary significantly, which means developers need to have several considerations in mind when crafting application integrations.
Then, your applications, data sources, and even requirements are constantly evolving and changing. So, you may have an integration that meets 100% of the needs of your business at that particular moment. But over time, that will less likely be the case. Eventually, you’ll have to change it, which is no easy task, and until you do it, you’re adding up to your technical debt.
Now, when there’s a market need, there tends to be a solution that claims to solve that problem. Any teleshopping program that’s on at 4 AM can prove this theory. For integrations, several no-code and low-code vendors claim to simplify application integration in a way that even business users can do it.
But is this realistic? Is low-code up to the integration challenge? That’s exactly what we went to find out in our webinar How to Speed Development of the Most Complex Integrations with Intellyx President and industry analyst Jason Bloomberg.
