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The systems you already own, actually connected.
Enterprise application integration, API lifecycle management, DevSecOps for integration artefacts, and migration off ageing middleware — delivered as software, in source control, shipped by pipeline.
The point of view
Nobody sets out to build fifteen point-to-point interfaces. They arrive one urgent project at a time, each one reasonable in isolation, until the estate reaches the state we usually find it in: no inventory, no owner, no test coverage, and a handful of flows that only run because one person remembers to restart something on the first of the month.
The fix is not a platform purchase. Most organisations we meet have already bought a perfectly capable integration platform and are using maybe a third of it, because the constraint was never the tool. It was that integration artefacts were treated as configuration rather than as software — clicked together in a console, unversioned, untested, promoted by hand, and impossible to review.
So the work is mostly discipline. Get the flows into source control. Give them a build. Give them tests that run without a live partner endpoint. Promote them through environments with a pipeline instead of a change ticket. None of it is novel, and all of it is the difference between an estate you can change safely and one you can only add to.
Services
Four services. Engagements usually start with one and widen once the interface inventory shows what else is in the way.
Make the systems you already own talk to each other — across application, company and hosting boundaries.
Merging data across disparate applications, consolidating business processes, and designing the messaging and transformation layer so mission-critical platforms exchange data without hand-built point-to-point glue.
Design, publish, govern and retire APIs on a lifecycle you can audit — create, control, consume.
Planning an API programme against business goals, then designing scalable interfaces, wiring them to back-end services, and keeping them stable and observable as consumption grows.
Treat integration artefacts like software: versioned, tested, promoted through environments, shipped by a pipeline.
Moving integration flows out of click-ops and into source control, with automated build and deploy, controlled promotion between environments, and security checks that run every time rather than at review time.
Get off ageing middleware without a big-bang rewrite — assess, sequence, migrate, decommission.
Current-state architecture analysis, a to-be roadmap, and a migration sequence that moves interfaces in slices — so the legacy bus retires progressively instead of in one high-risk cutover.
Migration
ESB modernisation fails in a predictable way: the programme tries to move everything at once, the cutover weekend runs out of hours, and the rollback leaves the estate running two platforms permanently.
We sequence it instead. Current-state architecture analysis and a to-be design come first, then the interfaces move in slices — grouped by shared dependency rather than by business convenience — with the legacy bus proxying whatever has not moved yet. The old platform is decommissioned progressively, and every slice is independently reversible.
It is slower to describe in a steering committee and considerably faster to finish.
Most of our migration work has been on and around IBM webMethods — Integration Server, Trading Networks, Broker and Universal Messaging, the EDI module, and version moves across the 9.x to 10.x line, including the side-by-side hops those usually need. That is also where the awkward parts live: partner agreements and processing rules that have to be recreated rather than exported, and flow services carrying configuration inline that only shows up after promotion.
Platforms
No reseller agenda and no preferred-vendor tax. If the right answer is the tool you have, that's the recommendation.
IBM webMethods
Integration platform · incl. B2B/EDI (Trading Networks)
Hands-on depth
MuleSoft
Integration platform
Hands-on depth
Boomi
Integration platform
Workato
Integration platform
SnapLogic
Integration platform
Celigo
Integration platform
Tray.io
Integration platform
Frends
Integration platform
Flowgear
Integration platform
IBM App Connect
Middleware
IBM API Connect
API management
Apigee
API management
Azure Integration Services
Cloud
Model Context Protocol
Agent tooling
OpenTelemetry
Observability
Enablement
Add integration and AI engineers to your existing teams without carrying sourcing, recruiting and retention overhead.
Anything from a single engineer with niche platform expertise to a group joining several teams at once. Engineers align to your working hours and your delivery process rather than running a parallel one.
Demand generation for technical products and services, run on measurement rather than vanity metrics.
Keyword research, on-page and off-page optimisation, and campaign tracking wired to analytics, so spend is attributed to pipeline instead of impressions.
First step
What talks to what, over which protocol, owned by whom, and what breaks if it stops. Most clients have never had that list in one place — and it reprices every downstream decision.
