System integration

Two systems that do not talk, and a person in the middle.

Most integration problems are not integration problems. They are disagreements about who owns which field — and code cannot settle those.

Symptoms

Does this sound familiar?

  • Every morning someone exports from one system and imports into another.
  • The same customer exists twice, spelled two different ways.
  • When the integration fails, you hear it from a client, not from a monitor.
  • Two reports on the same number disagree, and nobody can say which is right.
  • The ERP was supposed to be the single source of truth. It is not.
Method

How we approach it

01 — Inventory

Find every real source

There are always more than anyone lists — a database nobody mentioned, a file dropped on a share, a report someone emails. We find them before designing anything.

02 — Ownership

Decide who owns each field

One system is right about the customer address; another is right about the price. Writing that down resolves most conflicts before a line of code exists.

03 — Build

Pipelines that fail loudly

Retry, idempotency, and a record of exactly what moved and when. Silent partial failure is the expensive kind.

04 — Watch

Monitoring, so you know first

An alert when a load does not arrive, and reconciliation that proves both sides still agree.

Deliverables

What you get

  • An inventory of every source that actually feeds the process.
  • An ownership map — which system is authoritative for which field.
  • Pipelines in production, with retry and full traceability.
  • Alerting on failed and missing loads.
  • Reconciliation reports that prove the two sides agree.
Stack

Technologies

SSISInformatica PowerCenterREST / SOAPOracleSQL ServerPostgreSQLMySQLSFTP / filesPython
Someone who has been here

Mastercard

End-to-end integration structures engineered from strategy through execution, on a platform that could not stop.

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