API Development
The interfaces that let your systems talk to each other, and let partners build on top of what you have.
Getting two systems to exchange data properly, so nobody types the same thing twice.
Most double data entry inside a business is an integration that was never built: an order typed into the accounts package, a despatch re-keyed into a customer’s portal, a payment reconciled by hand. Every one of those is a place where a person is doing work an API would do reliably.
API work covers both directions — building an interface onto your system so others can connect, and connecting your system to somebody else’s. The difficult part is rarely the code; it is agreeing the contract and handling what happens when the other end is down.
The interfaces that let your systems talk to each other, and let partners build on top of what you have.
Software shaped around the way your business already works, instead of a packaged product you have to reorganise around.
Systems for organisations where several departments, sites and approval chains all have to work from the same data.
Apps built to be used daily — fast to open, sensible offline and maintainable once they are in the stores.
People look for this subject using a lot of different wording. These all describe the same thing, and this is the page for all of them.
Usually, provided it exposes an API, a database we can read, or a file exchange. Where none of those exist, the options narrow but rarely to zero.
Work is queued and retried rather than lost, and anything that cannot be delivered is raised as a visible exception rather than silently dropped.
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Describe it in your own words and we will tell you what it would take, or whether something simpler would do the job.