When your systems do not talk to each other, your people do the work the integration should be doing.
Platform integrations and true orchestration for complex system landscapes. Websites, APIs, ETL, webhooks, accounting systems, CRM, ERP, and proprietary infrastructure. Clean data flow without replacing what already exists.
WHAT IMAGEPLUS INTEGRATES
Any system that holds data the organisation needs.
FIG · 01 · INTEGRATION LANDSCAPE
Anything that holds data the organisation needs to move, connect, or act on.
HOW IMAGEPLUS INTEGRATES
Four patterns. The right one for the job.
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01 · Extract, transform, load
The ETL pattern for moving data reliably between systems. Extract it from the source, transform it into the format the destination needs, load it cleanly. The right pattern for batch movement, reporting pipelines, and systems that speak different data languages.
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02 · Webhooks and event-driven flow
Where real-time matters, webhooks push data the moment something happens rather than waiting for the next polling cycle. Faster, more efficient, and the right pattern for processes that cannot afford a delay between an event and the response.
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03 · API integration · inbound and outbound
Consuming third-party APIs cleanly, and exposing well-documented APIs for other systems to consume. Both directions, designed and maintained as production systems, not one-off connections.
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04 · True orchestration
Not point-to-point connections that multiply into an unmaintainable web. A single orchestration layer that manages the sequence, the conditions, the error handling, and the state across all connected systems simultaneously. When one system updates, the orchestration layer decides what happens next in the others, in the right order, with the right data, with full visibility into what happened.
THE FOUNDATION
Every integration ships with the same operational baseline.
Each engagement inherits what it requires. The cryptographic audit trail comes on for regulated work. The SLA comes on where uptime is the commitment. The rest is standard.
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Monitoring
Every data flow is watched. Failures surface immediately, not weeks later when someone notices the numbers are wrong.
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Error handling
When something fails, it fails cleanly. The error is logged, the team is notified, and the data state is recoverable.
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Cryptographic audit trail
Where the engagement calls for it, every data movement is cryptographically signed and traceable. For regulated environments, this is a compliance requirement.
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GDPR compliance
Data handling designed to meet regulatory requirements at every point in the flow.
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Defined RTO/RPO
The organisation knows exactly what happens if an integration fails and how long recovery takes.
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SLA
Service level agreements available on all engagements, subject to separate arrangement.
HOW IT CONNECTS
Integrations rarely stand alone.
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Digital transformation
Platform integrations are often the engineering layer of a digital transformation engagement. Where the Advisory work identifies systems that need to connect, the integration engineering makes it happen.
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Workflow automation
Once systems are connected, the data flow can drive automated processes. Integration and automation are natural partners.
Tell us which systems need to connect and what the data needs to do.
We will tell you what the integration would look like and what it would take.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Asked before starting.
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Can you integrate with systems that have no open API?
Yes. Where a system does not expose a clean API, we build the extraction and transformation layer around it. Data flows where it needs to go without requiring the source system to change.
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Do we need to replace our existing systems?
No. The integration is built around what already exists. SAP stays. Salesforce stays. The accounting system stays. What changes is how they talk to each other and how the data flows between them.
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What is true orchestration?
True orchestration is not point-to-point connections between systems. It is a single layer that manages the sequence, the conditions, the error handling, and the state across multiple systems simultaneously. When one system updates, the orchestration layer decides what happens next in the others, in the right order, with the right data, with full visibility into what happened.
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What is the difference between webhooks and traditional API polling?
Traditional API polling asks a system repeatedly whether something has changed. Webhooks push data the moment something happens. The result is real-time data flow rather than periodic synchronisation, faster, more efficient, and more reliable for event-driven processes.
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Can you connect accounting systems?
Yes. Accounting systems including Winbooks, Exact, Bob50, and SAP FI are part of the integration landscape. Financial data flows cleanly between the operational layer and the accounting system, with the audit trail and GDPR compliance the data requires.
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What does ETL mean and when is it the right pattern?
ETL stands for Extract, Transform, Load. It is the pattern for moving data between systems reliably: extract it from the source, transform it into the format the destination needs, and load it cleanly. The right pattern for batch data movement, reporting pipelines, and situations where the source and destination systems speak different data languages.
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Is an SLA available?
Yes. Service level agreements are available on all platform integration engagements, subject to separate arrangement.