When you genuinely need OIC

Said plainly, so the recommendation is a judgement rather than a sales position. Three conditions, and any one of them is a real case for a platform. ONE: ORCHESTRATION ACROSS THREE OR MORE SYSTEMS. A business transaction that must touch several systems in sequence, where a failure halfway needs a defined outcome — compensate, park, or roll back. Point-to-point can chain calls; it cannot hold the state of a half-finished sequence, and that state is exactly what an orchestrator exists to hold. TWO: TRANSFORMATION BEYOND A MAPPING. A field-to-field mapping belongs in the interface. Enrichment from a third source, aggregation across records, conditional routing by content — those are logic, and logic hidden inside an extract query or a template is logic nobody can find later. THREE: STATEFUL ERROR HANDLING. Retries with backoff, a dead-letter queue people work from, resubmission after correction, and a view of what is in flight.…

In this module: Module 11 · Integration patterns without OIC

1. 1The four patterns you will actually need
2. 2File-based integration, done properly
3. 3Scheduled extract to an external system
4. 4Point-to-point API calls, and their limits
5. 5Error handling without an orchestrator
6. 6When you genuinely need OIC
7. 7What breaks: the integration nobody owns
8. 8Lab briefing · Build one without a platform