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Enterprise Integration December 10, 2024 7 min read

The Institutional Gateway: Integrating with Dinosaurs

Government contracts and large institutions rely on legacy SOAP APIs and outdated data structures. Here is how modern startups can build a translation layer to secure these contracts.

There is a vast graveyard of modern startups that failed to secure enterprise contracts because their shiny REST APIs could not communicate with the institution's twenty-year-old on-premise servers.

The trick is not forcing the institution to modernise. The trick is building an 'Institutional Gateway' - a robust translation layer that ingests their archaic XML or SOAP feeds, sanitises the data, and pipes it into your modern Next.js stack.

By absorbing that technical friction on your side, you position your software as the path of least resistance for the procurement officer.


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