Solutions
Integration
Integration connects two or more systems so they share data automatically, instead of a person copying it from one to the other by hand. It suits any company where the same information is typed into more than one system. Once systems are connected, that information moves between them on its own, correctly and every time.
What it is and how it works
Most systems that share data do it through an API, short for application programming interface: a defined way for one program to ask another for data, or to send data to it. The two systems do not need to know anything about each other beyond that shared, agreed way of asking and answering.
Not every system offers an API. Where one does not, we connect it another way: through a file it exports on a schedule, or through a direct connection to its database, reading the data from where the system already stores it rather than waiting for a purpose-built door into it.
Some data does not arrive in a form a system can use directly. Where that happens, such as a request written as a free-text email rather than a structured field, AI reads it and turns it into the shape the next system needs, before the integration passes it along.
Integration also covers moving away from a legacy system: an older system the company still depends on, but one that is hard to maintain, no longer updated by its supplier or unable to connect to anything newer. We move its data into the new system and run the two side by side, connected, until the new one has shown that it holds everything the old one did. Only then is the old system switched off, so the daily work never depends on a single switch-over day.
Where it fits
Wholesale
Sends online shop orders into inventory and accounting, and stock levels back to the shop.
Healthcare clinics
Moves bookings into the patient record and invoicing, so staff enter each visit once.
Trades and construction
Connects job planning to accounting, so hours and materials logged on a job become an invoice.
How we implement it
The same five stages apply to every solution we build. For integration, that starts with listing your systems and marking every place where someone currently copies data from one to another by hand, since each of those places is a candidate connection.
We connect two systems first and test that connection on your real data before anyone in your team relies on it for daily work. Only once it has held up in normal use do we connect the next pair, reusing what the first connection showed about how your data actually looks.
A connection that runs quietly is still watched. We put a named person on alert if a transfer ever fails, and we update the connection whenever one of the systems on either end changes, so a routine software update elsewhere does not quietly break something your team depends on.
- Soil We list your systems and every place where someone copies data from one to another.
- Seed We connect two systems first and test the connection on real data before anyone relies on it.
- Rooted The integration runs in your live systems, and a named person gets an alert if a transfer fails.
- Growth We connect further systems phase by phase, reusing what the first connection showed about your data.
- Care We watch the connections, update them when a system changes and add new ones as you add software.
What it gives your company
Once systems are connected, nobody has to remember to copy a figure from one place to another, and nobody has to notice, later, that the copy was never made or was made with a typing mistake. The same piece of information exists once and reaches everywhere it is needed on its own.
That removes an entire category of error: the total that no longer matches because one system was updated and the other was not, the record that exists in one place but not the other, the report built from whichever system happened to be updated last. Two systems that share data cannot quietly disagree about it.
It also changes how a business can grow. Adding a new system used to mean deciding, again, who would keep it in step with everything else by hand. Once your systems already share data through defined connections, a new one joins that pattern instead of adding another manual step for someone to remember.
Why Lynggaard Jardim
At Lynggaard Jardim, Alexander answers for operations and finance and Victor for web development, AI and IT infrastructure. An integration we build gets checked against both: how the data is actually used in the business, and how the connection itself holds up as your systems change.
We work from Copenhagen and connect the systems your team already uses as they stand, rather than asking you to replace one of them so it fits a standard integration package. A connection built around your actual systems is one that keeps working when one of them is updated, not one that breaks the next time it is.