Defining Integration Requirements

Clearly, identifying or creating the necessary integrations is critical for introducing a new product into an organization's software stack. If the new product is open source, the task might be further complicated by the lack of available integrations with commercial products that are already present in the software stack.

Identifying required integrations is crucial.

The best approach to successfully integrate an open source product into your software stack is to plan for it and create a process to ensure it is accomplished successfully.

Identify the Needed Integrations

It is no accident that this topic was addressed in the very first step of the open source product selection process outlined in Chapter 5

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