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    • 15 Apr 2025
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    Integration Hub

    • Updated on 15 Apr 2025
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    Overview

    An Integration Hub is the bridge that keeps your apps and systems working together. It connects different software, making sure data flows smoothly and securely across platform - whether on-prem, in the cloud, or a hybrid setup.

    With an Integration Hub, you can automate workflows, boost productivity, sync data in real time, and lighten the load on IT teams. It scales effortlessly as your business grows, ensuring everything stays connected without the hassle.

    Example, a tech company links its IT support, asset management, and user access systems. When an employee requests a new laptop, the system logs the request, updates inventory, and alerts IT - all automatically. No manual back-and-forth, no delays. Just seamless, efficient operations.

    User Persona: Administrator

    The Integration Hub comprises several key components that facilitate seamless data integration and automation:

    • Projects: Projects serve as organizational units that group related assets such as Recipes, Connections, Folders, and API collections within a Workspace.

    • Recipes: These are no-code automation workflows that connect various applications, enabling the seamless transfer and processing of data across systems.

    • Triggers and Actions: Triggers initiate workflows when specific events occur (for example, receiving a new support ticket), while Actions define the subsequent steps to be executed in response.

    • Connections: Secure links established between applications, databases, and cloud services, ensuring smooth and automatic data synchronization without manual intervention.

    • Connectors: Pre-built integration tools that allow for effortless connection with popular applications, eliminating the need for custom coding.

    • Data Mapping and Transformation: Processes that structure and modify data as it moves between systems, ensuring consistent formatting and compatibility across different platforms.

    • Monitoring and Logs: Tools that provide real-time visibility into integration processes, enabling performance tracking and issue troubleshooting to maintain seamless operations.

    • API platform: Tools for building, managing, and publishing APIs, facilitating integration with external systems.

    Benefits

    The infographic highlights the key benefits of the Integration Hub.

    Role of Integration Hub

    An Integration Hub enables seamless data exchange by connecting diverse systems, ensuring interoperability, and automating workflows for enhanced efficiency.

    The following infographic illustrates how the Integration Hub operates.

    Use Case

    Let us explore the following Use Case:

    Use-Case

    Solution

    At NovaTech, employees frequently book flight tickets for business travel. The process often involves checking multiple airline websites, comparing fares, manually entering traveler details, and submitting information for internal approval.

    This disjointed experience is time-consuming, error-prone, and creates bottlenecks, especially when employees have to repeat the process for different providers. From the IT or operations side, integrating and maintaining connections with various airline systems using traditional methods is complex and costly.

    To streamline the process, Integration Hub with AIW Chat, simplifies and automates the flight booking process and reduces manual effort.

    When an employee initiates a flight booking request in AIW Chat, Integration Hub seamlessly connects to multiple airline APIs to:

    • Fetch and display flight options in real time

    • Compare pricing and availability

    • Capture traveler details in a conversational flow

    • Trigger bookings and confirmations with minimal manual input

    It also supports approvals and notifications and automatically logs the booking information in the system of record.

    This end-to-end automation reduces manual effort, shortens booking time, improves accuracy, and creates a seamless experience for both employees and IT/Ops teams.

    Best practices

    Use the following best practices to implement Integration Hub effectively and achieve optimal results.

    Best practices to implement Integration Hub

    • Use Prebuilt Connectors and APIs

      Prebuilt connectors and APIs streamline integrations by reducing development effort, ensuring compatibility, and enabling faster implementation. They enhance security, scalability, and data consistency while minimizing custom coding.

    • Organize Projects and Design Recipes

      Organizing projects and designing reusable integration recipes ensure efficiency, scalability, and easy maintenance. Standardized workflows, modular components, and clear documentation streamline development and reduce errors.

    • Error Handling and Logging

      Error handling and logging ensure system reliability by detecting, tracking, and resolving integration issues efficiently. They help maintain data integrity, optimize performance, and support compliance.

    High-Level Overview

    Integration Hub is a centralized platform that enables seamless data exchange and workflow automation between enterprise applications using prebuilt connectors, APIs, and event-driven triggers. It enhances efficiency, scalability, and security while reducing manual efforts and integration costs.

    The following table describes the high-level flow to configure Integration Hub:

    Log in to the AIW as an Administrator, to access the Integration Hub components.

    Step

    Action

    User persona: Administrator

    Description

    1

    Projects

    Organize and manage automation workflows in a structured way. Keep integrations tidy, track updates, and streamline collaboration.

    2

    Recipe, Connection, and Folders

    Define automation logic with recipes, establish seamless connections between apps, and categorize workflows for better organization. Everything in its right place.

    3

    Connectors

    Leverage pre-built connectors to integrate with popular apps effortlessly. No coding required - just plug, play, and automate.

    4

    API Collection

    Stay on top of things with real-time logs. Monitor execution, troubleshoot issues, and ensure smooth operations without missing a beat.

    5

    Logs

    Expand your integration capabilities with APIs. Connect multiple systems, extend functionality, and create a seamless data flow across platforms.

    The Integration Hub comprises of:


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