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The Integrators

Applications integration represents a large and mature industry. Those engaged in the integration process scale from micro businesses on the order of an individual IT consultant to computer industry giants like IBM, and everything in between.

Software vendors that offer consulting services are probably capable of some degree of applications integration. If not, they work with partners who offer such services. The integrators that are outlined next include a specific firm, a generic profile of an IT consultant with programming skills, and even SMB employees who, through their skills and knowledge, can compensate manually for the lack of integration while at the same time laying the groundwork for eventually bringing automated integration ...