Application development

Third-Party API Integration

An external platform is useful only if your application can exchange the right data with it, securely, and keep SQL Server as the record you control.

The kind of connection, not a vendor list

Companies ask us to connect a business application to a CRM, an ERP, a payment or shipping service, an email platform, a cloud service, a customer portal, a sign-in provider or a reporting system. We do not list those products as supported until we have read that vendor's API and agreed the scope. If the documentation or the authentication model is a poor fit, we say so before building.

How an integration is delivered

  1. Requirement

    What business event must cross the boundary, and which system owns the record.

  2. API review

    Endpoints, limits, authentication and the fields that actually exist.

  3. Data mapping

    How their objects match your SQL Server tables, including failures and retries.

  4. Build, test, deploy

    The integration runs in a non-production pass before it touches live data.

  5. Monitor and maintain

    Logs, alerts and a place to change the integration when the vendor changes the API.

Building your own API is a different page: web services and API development.

Send the API documentation

The vendor name, what must sync, and how often. We will tell you if the integration is straightforward or needs a different design.