In recent years much has changed regarding the way different software applications and programs are integrated to work together smoothly and cooperatively.
•The advent of web-based applications, such as DocuPhase, that can be employed from virtually anywhere on a network or internet;
•The diverse range and scope of many software application systems today that are developed in-house or provided as software products;
•The complexity of modern systems that are costly to modify or do not permit modification demand higher-level and simpler methods for doing systems integration.
•Likewise, the existing IT demands on organizations constrain the amount of custom programming, custom modifications and software maintenance that is practical for client organizations to support.
Today, systems integration is primarily based on industry standards such ODBC, standard file formats, standard networking protocols, windows and browser standards plus web-services, etc. The design for the DocuPhase Platform is built upon these industry standards allowing most customer integration needs to be addressed without expensive and technical programming skills.
Even the use of the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) can be accomplished with light programming or scripting that are language independent by using high-level web-services commands based on URL-formats that are necessary and best practices for integration with modern web-based applications such as DocuPhase.
The following topics provide you with an overview of the various types of system integration that can be efficiently combined to fit your organization’s needs.