The Integration Engineer
When it just has to work.

What is the purpose of “The Integration Engineer” blog?

The Integration Engineer helps businesses and technology work together.  I believe that the core purpose of technology from the invention of fire and the wheel has been, and always should be, to make life easier for people.  But I have noticed that much of the time, technology is written and supported poorly for this purpose.  “The Integration Engineer” is a place where technology for systems integration are explored and explained so that the purpose, “To make live easier”, of technology can be realized.

How you can help?

First, I would like to invite you to subscribe to my site.  Then, if you are involved in the systems integration business, whether it is just getting your desktop applications to talk to each other, or multi-million dollar ERP solutions, the challenge is the same and I want to hear your experiences..  If you have a solution or a problem, send me a note, and we can post it on the blog for all to benefit from.  I can write about it, or you can write a guest post, or we can work together to write a post or more.

Where did this idea come from?

I started this site to provide a place where I can collect information related to e-commerce systems integration.  I started working with e-commerce systems years ago, and at that time it was difficult to find resources to help provide solutions to integration issues.

When I started I received lots of help from the integration counterparts at the companies we were working with.  Now the role is reversed, People at other companies are asking me how to solve these problems and where to find resources.

And I had the thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could just refer this person to a site that had all of this information?”  So I started looking for such a site, and I did find some resources, but nothing that would let me just say, “Go here, and let me know if you have any questions.”

So this site was born.  (In my mind anyway.)  I have a fairly large archive of email and projects that I will be writing about, and attaching resources to help people with mapping and integration.  I want to share these because I am proud of the work that I have done and the things I have learned, but also because the more people and companies adopt good integration practices the easier integration work will become.

If you find this site helpful, please let me know.  I will be happy to hear from you.

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