Integration projects (or how to connect Thing 1 and Thing 2)

Sep 2016

If you’re a small business, how do you connect Thing 1 to Thing 2? These are the kinds of projects that get us excited at Wimborne Business Systems because it can be relatively simple to add real value to our customers by making two systems work together. In the industry these are called “integration projects”.

Examples of small scale integration projects we’ve delivered in the last year have involved connecting up these services and databases:

• Facebook
• Outlook
• Xero
• MailChimp
• bookwhen.com
• Sage
• Our own CRM product
• Slack
• WordPress
• Esendex

In some cases we will use an API or ODBC. But it’s sometimes a case of just wiring up a to a service like IFTTT or Zapier.

And this week two more opportunities for connecting things together have come in, so we’re looking at starting some more integration projects very soon.