How custom coding integrations result in project overruns

Dependency on coding expertise to manage integrations slows down digital growth

To help your customers digitalize and accelerate their digital commerce, creating integrations between eCommerce platforms, ERP systems, and other software is becoming an increasing requirement. The traditional way of creating these integrations requires senior developers to write end-to-end code. However, apart from being time-consuming and unpredictably expensive, being solely created by custom code these integrations can only be understood by coding experts.

The more you attempt to expand your IT landscapes by adding new integrations via custom-code, the lesser flexible, scalable and sustainable it gets over time. Hindering integration improvements and slowing down error detection, custom code integrations tend to results in unexpected project costs and overruns due to:

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• Integration Black Boxes
  The data-logic across all connected software and systems are incomprehensible to project managers or clients without coding expertise. This makes it difficult to efficiently organize fixes for faulty integrations. Since the integration logic can not be seen and is not shown in an ‘understandable format’ to the customer, business owner or project manager, they can’t use their business sense to ensure the integration will work according to their desired business needs. As a result, business owners aren’t assured enough to allocate appropriate budgets or IT resources to mitigate integration errors in a timely fashion, which leads to project overruns. This makes it difficult to modify or improve current integrations and hinders the possibility of adding new APIs and creating newer connections.
• ‍Misusing Senior Developers  
  Senior developers are a rare, valuable, and costly resource of any IT team. Having to solely rely on coding expertise to monitor, manage and modify your custom code integrations becomes progressively challenging and costly. Detecting and troubleshooting integration errors manually via custom code can be very time-consuming. In other words, your senior developers end up spending their valuable time in support and maintenance, when they could be creating smart custom-code solutions to improve your business processes and digital commerce.  
• ‍Lack of integration interchangeability
  Integrations created internally are always at risk of developers switching jobs, leaving your organization with poorly maintained, unmonitored integrations. What’s more, using custom code to add, remove or modify integrations, or interchange a software or system with a better-suited one, amounts to the duration and expenses of starting an entirely new custom coding project from scratch.

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How using an iPaaS for integrations helps eliminate project overruns

Alumio is a cloud-based, no-code 'integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)' that helps create integrations with two or more software, systems or data points from one user-friendly interface. It makes all your connections visible on one easy-to-use dashboard and enables you to create, manage and monitor all your integrations without any coding expertise.  This allows business owners and project managers without any coding expertise, to literally be on the same page with their customers and IT professionals when discussing tweaks, fixes and adding new connections to integrations.

By offering a better purview of your integrations, Alumio’s iPaaS provides a plethora of advantages over custom code integrations that helps increase ROI and eliminate hidden costs and project overruns, such as:

Upscale with Junior Developers
An iPaaS makes it accessible for data experts and Junior Developers to create and manage integrations via the user-friendly interface. This frees Senior Developers to solve complex problems that require their expertise.

Interchangeable Integrations
Add, remove or replace any software, API, plugin or data-point by simply clicking through the iPaaS dashboard, without any loss of data integrity.

Monitoring & Logging
Avoid burning many valuable work hours by manually monitoring integrations, by automatically detecting integration errors or API conflicts on the dashboard

Integration Templates
Offering a growing selection of tried and tested, preconfigured integrations templates, Alumio’s iPaaS allows you to create quicker and more cost-effective integrations.  

Happier customers with 360° Data Insights
Adjust connections, fix issues, or create customizations for your integrations with holistic performance and data insights.  

Create a Scalable IT Landscape
Centralize and streamline all integrations on one platform, unlock data silos and be able to accurately predict and plan budgets for your integration projects.

Digitalization is evolving rapidly and being able to create fast, flexible and scalable integrations to quickly adapt to newer software and solutions, is the only way to ensure digital growth. An iPaaS makes it significantly easier to expand, adjust or experiment with new integrations without the hassles of custom code, and more importantly - without any unpredictable project costs or overruns.