A diagram featuring interconnected nodes and squares, illustrating a network or relationship structure.

Systems integration

Previous service

Next service

Summary

Industrial-grade systems integration has reached higher education and nonprofits, but sophistication brings trade-offs. The tools you choose determine who can actually govern and maintain your systems.

Our Systems Integration offering balances power with accessibility, respecting the different priorities of IT and advancement.

Solutions

  • MuleSoft's API-led connectivity makes SIS integrations resilient, reusable, and scalable.

  • Connected Excel templates empower gift processors to adapt to changing business rules.

  • Python libraries allow smaller institutions to send data to vendors without enterprise overhead.

  • A robust data lake provides the foundation larger institutions need for advanced analytics.

Rest assured, we understand your systems, and will guide you to the solutions that fit your mission.

Experience

  • Cloud: Azure, AWS, Snowflake

  • Engineering: MuleSoft, Python, SQL, GitHub

  • CRM Agnostic: Experience across all major platforms

We are comfortable building from scratch or collaborating on your internal APIs and CI/CD pipelines.

Our background in computer science enables you to choose the right tool for the job, and our experience in advancement services saves you time during discovery.

What to expect

  1. Initial consultation — We briefly meet to determine the scope of your integrations.

  2. Onboarding — You provide access to your systems and implementation documents.

  3. Planning — We deliver a project timeline and prepare targeted discovery questions.

  4. Discovery — We meet to gather the requirements for each integration.

  5. Design — We map data flows, estimate resource requirements, and coordinate with IT on internal builds, security, and governance.

  6. Build — We build integrations and implement CRM staging objects if needed.

  7. Validation — We deploy to a testing environment for rigorous validation, provide full documentation and training, and manage the move to production.

Ready to secure your implementation?

Schedule a consultation to speak with an advancement data expert about your project. Let’s consolidate your critical functionality while modernizing your data architecture.

Schedule a consultation

A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
A dense forest scene with tall trees, showcasing thick roots and a soft, muted light filtering through the branches.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
Close-up of a tree stump showing growth rings and a textured brown wood surface.

Ready to secure your implementation?

Schedule a consultation to speak with an advancement data expert about your project. Let’s consolidate your critical functionality while modernizing your data architecture.

Schedule a consultation

A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
A dense forest scene with tall trees, showcasing thick roots and a soft, muted light filtering through the branches.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
Close-up of a tree stump showing growth rings and a textured brown wood surface.

Ready to secure your implementation?

Schedule a consultation to speak with an advancement data expert about your project. Let’s consolidate your critical functionality while modernizing your data architecture.

Schedule a consultation

A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
A group of diverse people are gathered around a table, engaged in discussion and collaboration.
A series of concrete stairs leading upwards, surrounded by green grass on either side.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
A dense forest scene with tall trees, showcasing thick roots and a soft, muted light filtering through the branches.
Laptop displaying data charts on a table in a bright room with natural light.
Close-up of a tree stump showing growth rings and a textured brown wood surface.