Integration Fundamentals

Integration allows information to be shared between the connected systems. These integration solutions can come in many forms, whether it be requesting information from a website, internal employee systems sending and receiving information, or connecting customer data from a point of sale system to CRM to automate recommendations.

Regardless of industry, software integration can be applied to several use cases for nearly every aspect or department of the business, so long as there are multiple systems, applications, devices, or datasets that need to be connected.

Key takeaways

• API
• Outbound/Inbound
• Method
• Endpoint
• Params
• Authentication
• Headers (Content Type, Authorization)
• Payload
• Response
• HTTP Status Code