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Integration challenges hold businesses back, with data silos remaining a challenge for 90% of organisations. In this next instalment of our blog series about common integration issues, we shed light on custom fields, some of the common pitfalls associated with these and how to create a very smooth integration and automation experience with custom fields.

The pandemic has been (dare we speak in past tense?) many things, to many people. It gave many people some downtime, balance and flexibility, while others were less happy living through it. We explore how integrations can make a true difference in this new hybrid world we live in, by fostering connections between systems, and people.

In this blog we reflect on an important and complex application migration project that we partnered on with Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (the Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency, DJI). How do data migrations work in Harmonizer, and why did DJI opt to partner with Harmonizer for this project?

It can often feel somewhat frustrating for IT teams in small-medium sized businesses - dealing with an increasing number of systems and applications just like their large business counterparts, yet lacking the resources in terms of time and money to integrate them properly. This can leave small-medium businesses in a lurch. In order to compete in this modern market, one needs to be agile and connected. Integrations and automations are part of the toolbox for this, yet seem out of reach.

One of the most frequently asked questions by our larger customers is: Where is our data? This blog aims to tackle this topic for integrations, and beyond - working through it, it is quite hairy. This is due to the complexity of modern technology, in combination with an ever increasing and more complex compliance burden around data. In addition, having an in-depth understanding of both technology and compliance is rare, meaning it requires a lot of continued collaborative efforts to get it right for your organisation.

For this week’s blog, we wanted to shed some light on the details of a complex client use case. Together with our partners Fellow Digitals and face to face, we love resolving complex data problems together. Hollow words on their own, and therefore we go into detail below what this means for a mutual client, using a concrete and 'live' example.

We must admit, this trend may not have a nice ring to it. On this website, we proudly advertise ‘trust’ as one of the foundational pillars of the way we work and being a trusted partner to collaborate with. So why would we want to blog about 0 Trust for our trend series, and what does it have to do with integrations?

Over the last few years, we have been building business with the talented crew at Winkwaves. They are in the business of social intranet. In this blog post, we explain why our partnership works so well.

In this blog, we reflect on integrations 'on the way' to the cloud - a journey a lot of organisations find themselves on. We find that a strategy in relation to a move to the cloud can be lacking, with unpleasant surprises as a consequence. This can apply broadly, in terms of the holistic cloud strategy, but more often we experience it regarding integrations. We share our best practices and lessons learned.

This is a new blog series about common integration issues. We will relay scenarios that crop up in the space of integrations, and share some tips on how to prevent these from happening, in our experience. We hope that by sharing our knowledge and lessons learned, that the space of integrations can be a happier place for everyone. This first entry is about breaking APIs, and how being prepared to respond is important since it is inevitable that APIs break.