Platforms Development and Integration for systems that already exist and no longer agree.

Platform integration is the work of making separate systems, databases, and third-party services behave as one: API integration, middleware between applications, database design, and the business logic that holds it together. We have connected hotel property management systems (Opera Cloud, Shift4, IBS Software) for a UK booking platform, wired a Microsoft Dynamics ERP to Shopify storefronts for a European manufacturer, and built a rental-tracking system on NFC and RFID wristbands that runs on the MindBody API. The goal is one flow of data instead of people copying it between tools by hand.

Yes. A missing or dated API is the normal starting point, not a blocker. We build middleware, adapters, and automation to bridge systems that were never designed to talk to each other, including SharePoint automation on C#, .NET 8, and Azure for an Aachen Microsoft-cloud consultancy. Where a system exposes no clean interface, we design one around it, and that adapter is also what lets you replace the underlying system later without touching everything downstream.

Cost tracks the integration surface, not the feature list, and nobody can price an integration surface from a service name, so the figure comes out of discovery. Five things move it: how many systems are in scope, whether any lacks a usable API (a bridge you have to design costs more than a documented endpoint), how much business logic ends up living in the middleware, the data volume crossing it, and the compliance regime it sits under. If you would rather fund a team than a scope, that is team extension, billed monthly per team member.

Timelines track the number of systems and how cooperative they are, far more than the number of features. In our delivery experience a single well-documented API integration lands in weeks, while a platform that replaces a legacy system and keeps several third-party connections live runs into months. One marker from our own work: we built a salon booking platform end to end in three months, Facebook booking flow through to real-time availability sync and SMS reminders. Discovery produces the phased plan and the estimate before you commit budget.

Yes, and keeping them is the whole point of this service. We are not an ERP reseller and we do not push a platform swap because it would make our integration work easier. On a European manufacturer's build the client's IT department introduced the solution outline and Microsoft Dynamics was selected as the best-suited ERP; we built the Shopify storefronts and the custom middleware between them. Where a system genuinely cannot be kept, we say so in discovery and price the modernization separately rather than smuggling it into an integration quote.

A custom middleware layer is a category rather than a moat: this page can claim it and so can the proposal next to it, so the useful comparison happens below the category. Three of them can be checked from outside a proposal, and every one should be put to us too. Ask to see an integration map and the data contracts from something that shipped, not an architecture diagram drawn for a pitch, because the contracts are where business logic either lives or leaks. Ask whether the written assessment can be bought on its own before any delivery commitment, and whether you are tied in afterwards: here it is a separate decision and there is no minimum engagement period. And ask for the review URL, not the rating. Every client quoted on this page opens their own Clutch review, so you can read what they said before and after it.

Every engagement runs under our ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications, renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK, with ISTQB-certified QA inside delivery rather than bolted on at the end. The security work on an integration concentrates in the space between the systems: encryption in transit and at rest, secure authentication between services, credentials scoped per system, and access control so an integration account can never do more than its job. On a financial advisory accounting platform that meant adding encryption and secure user authentication to a half-built system before extending it.

AI agents are only as useful as the systems they can actually reach. An integration you already own, whether an ERP connection, a PIM, a PMS, or an API bridge, is a surface an agent can read from and act on. Our MCP development service takes that further, turning integration work into a reusable asset AI tools can call directly, and the boundary between the two is who reads the interface: another business system or a person here, an AI agent there. The integration you invest in for operations today doubles as the foundation your AI initiatives run on.