Featured Solutions – Universal Integration

Universal Integration

Organizations today operate within increasingly complex digital ecosystems composed of cloud services, on-premises systems, SaaS platforms, partner networks, data sources, devices, and custom applications. As digital transformation accelerates, the ability to seamlessly, securely, and consistently integrate across these heterogeneous environments becomes a strategic necessity rather than a technical convenience. Universal Integration is the foundation that enables organizations to connect anything to everything—reliably, at scale, and with governance.

Flexible and SECURE

Secure Modern Innovation

An API Gateway serves as the central control plane for Universal Integration by abstracting complexity and enforcing standardized access across all systems and interfaces. Instead of point-to-point integrations that create brittle dependencies and operational risk, the API Gateway provides a unified integration layer that normalizes protocols, secures traffic, manages identity, and enforces policy consistently across internal systems, external partners, SaaS providers, and emerging technologies. This approach dramatically reduces integration sprawl while accelerating time-to-value for new initiatives.

proven roi

Cost Reduction and Risk Mitigation

Operationally, Universal Integration powered by an API Gateway increases agility and resilience. Teams can onboard new applications, partners, data sources, or platforms without re-engineering existing integrations. APIs become reusable, discoverable assets rather than one-off connections, allowing organizations to scale integration capabilities horizontally as business needs evolve. This reduces operational overhead, lowers maintenance costs, and minimizes the risk of outages caused by tightly coupled systems. From a business perspective, Universal Integration unlocks innovation. It enables faster product launches, richer digital experiences, data-driven decision-making, and seamless collaboration across ecosystems. Whether integrating legacy systems with cloud-native services, connecting IoT devices to analytics platforms, enabling real-time data exchange with partners, or unifying customer, operational, and analytical systems, the API Gateway becomes the backbone that makes integration predictable, secure, and scalable.

strategic enablement

Speed, Security, and Interoperability

Universal Integration is not merely about connecting systems—it is about establishing a strategic integration fabric that supports growth, security, and innovation. An API Gateway is the critical enabler of this vision, providing the centralized governance, security, scalability, and flexibility required to integrate across diverse technologies and environments. Organizations that invest in this architecture position themselves to adapt quickly, operate securely, and compete effectively in an increasingly interconnected digital world.

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Enable Modern API Access to Legacy Applications

Leverage Forum Sentry and the multitude of embedded capabilities to allow applications and services to be instantly modernized by providing a logical API abstraction layer of Forum Sentry which can provide the translation capabilities to seamless enable your legacy systems and applications to be able to use modern authentication such as SAML and OAuth, and also to be able to present modern APIs where the data is translated automatically.

Mediation and Transformation

Convert message formats XML, JSON, SOAP, HTML, CSV, FILE Granular data mapping XSLT Processing

Attribute Mapping and Extraction

HTTP Headers Request/Response Message Content (XML, JSON, etc) IdM Repositories (LDAP, AD, etc), Databases, APIs

Protocol Mixing

In-Line conversion of protocols TLS 1.3 HTTP, SFTP, AMQP JMS Database

Authentication

2-Factor Authentication (2FA) Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Multi-context Authentication (MCA)

Flow Control

Dynamic remote routing Remote system failover Load balancing Redirects

Encoding, Digests, and Strings

BASE64, URL, Hex, Binary Extensible encoding processing URI and Data rewriting

Auditing and Logging

Transaction audit trail Machine Learning log format