Application Integration Coding using APIs

New public and private programmatic data sources (APIs) are springing up all over the internet.  Use our Application Integration Coding to take advantage of these data sources in your own business, or to publish your data for the advantage of customers and business partners.

Consume Data Published by Other Businesses Online

Major software companies offer their data and application logic in the cloud as a service (known as Software as a Service or SaaS).  Your on-premise systems can connect in real-time to these systems using an application programming interface (API).

Popular examples include, Amazon Marketplace Web Services (MWS), SalesForce.com, eBay, Federal Express, USPS, Facebook, Twitter, Google G Suite, and Intuit Quickbooks Online.

Get assistance in integrating your business systems directly with cloud and business partner systems using these ubiquitous APIs.   Systems built with the ability for the systems of a particular audience (or everyone) to use over the internet are referred to as a service oriented architecture (SOA).

Publish your Data and Business Logic to Customers and Partners

Conversely, your business data and application logic can be made available as a service by publishing a secure API that your customers and partners can consume.   Need to publish order fulfillment, inventory level, or quote requests from your application for your partner systems’ to directly access?  We can likely build that for you.

NOTE: Some restrictions to publishing your logic depend on the age, source code availability and technology of your application.

Connecting to systems using Legacy Interfaces

Most modern APIs are stateless (REST) and use the standard HTTP protocol to communicate.  Many older APIs utilize database technologies such as ODBC, OLE DB and JDBC.  Other Windows based APIs include COM, ActiveX and .NET remoting.   Contact us if you need to tap into the potential of these older APIs.

Examples of applications that use these older interfaces include QuickBooks desktop, PeachTree and Microsoft Excel.

For additional information contact us, or see our “rent a coder” page.