Connect Your Systems
Without Creating New Problems
Every enterprise runs on integrations — and most of those integrations were built under deadline pressure with minimal documentation. We design integration architectures that are reliable, maintainable, and observable, so your systems talk to each other without your engineers losing sleep over it.
Integration Artifacts That Prevent Firefighting
Everything your team needs to build integrations that do not wake people up at 3 AM.
Integration Landscape Map
A complete visual inventory of all system-to-system connections — APIs, file transfers, database links, message queues, and manual processes — with data flow direction, volume, and criticality ratings.
Target Integration Architecture
The recommended integration topology — hub-and-spoke, event-driven, API gateway, or hybrid — selected based on your specific volume patterns, latency requirements, and team capabilities.
API & Contract Specifications
Interface contracts for every integration point — request/response schemas, error handling patterns, retry policies, and versioning strategy — documented in OpenAPI or AsyncAPI format.
Error Handling & Resilience Patterns
Circuit breaker configurations, dead letter queue strategies, idempotency patterns, and graceful degradation rules for every critical integration path.
Observability & Alerting Design
Monitoring strategy covering health checks, latency thresholds, error rate alerting, and distributed tracing setup so your team can diagnose integration issues in minutes, not hours.
Migration & Cutover Sequence
For teams replacing existing integrations, a phased cutover plan with parallel-run periods, validation checkpoints, and rollback procedures for each integration being migrated.
Our Integration Planning Process
Integration Discovery
We catalog every integration in your ecosystem — including the ones nobody documented. Shadow IT, spreadsheet bridges, and manual email workflows all get mapped.
Week 1-2Pattern Analysis & Risk Scoring
Each integration is evaluated for reliability, maintainability, and business criticality. We identify the fragile connections that carry the most risk.
Week 2-3Architecture Design
We design the target integration architecture — selecting patterns, middleware, and protocols based on your actual requirements, not theoretical best practices.
Week 3-4Contract & Standards Definition
We define API contracts, event schemas, error handling standards, and naming conventions that give your teams a consistent playbook for building integrations.
Week 4-5Implementation Roadmap & Handoff
We sequence the integration build-out, prioritizing high-risk connections first, and brief your engineering teams on patterns, standards, and tooling.
Week 5-6Your Integrations Should Not Be Your Weakest Link
Book a free integration health check — we will identify your three most fragile system connections.
Schedule Free ConsultationWho Needs Integration Planning
If your teams spend more time debugging integrations than building features, this engagement pays for itself.
Enterprises with Complex Vendor Ecosystems
Organizations running 15+ SaaS tools, on-premise systems, and custom applications that need to share data reliably across boundaries.
Complex StackFinancial Services Firms
Banks, payment processors, and fintechs where integration failures can delay settlements, break reconciliation, or trigger compliance violations.
Mission-CriticalPost-Merger Technology Teams
Organizations integrating technology stacks after acquisition — where two CRMs, two ERPs, and two data warehouses need to become one coherent ecosystem.
M&A IntegrationCompanies Building Partner Ecosystems
Platforms exposing APIs to third-party partners who need reliable, well-documented, and version-managed integration points.
API EconomyWhy OpenMalo for Integration Planning
We have designed integrations that process millions of transactions daily — and survive when things go wrong.
Map Your Integration Challenges
Describe your current integration pain points and we will respond with an initial assessment and recommended engagement scope.
Replacing Brittle Integrations with Resilient Pipelines
Wealth Platform Eliminates 91% of Integration Failures
A wealth management platform connected to 23 external data providers, custodian APIs, and compliance systems through point-to-point integrations built over six years. Every market data feed change or custodian API update caused cascading failures across the platform.
23 Providers, 47 Integrations, Weekly Breakage
Point-to-point integrations with no error handling, no retry logic, and no monitoring meant that when one provider changed their API response format, the engineering team spent days tracing the downstream impact.
Our Approach: We mapped all 47 integration points, designed an event-driven integration layer with a central API gateway, implemented circuit breakers and dead letter queues for every critical path, and built an observability dashboard that reduced mean-time-to-detection from 4 hours to 12 minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on your integration volume, complexity, and team skills. For standard SaaS-to-SaaS connections — CRM to email platform, ERP to data warehouse — an iPaaS like Workato or Tray often makes sense. For high-volume financial transaction processing or custom business logic, purpose-built integrations with proper error handling outperform generic platforms. We help you make this decision based on your specific landscape.
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