Services · Integration framework

An integration framework earned in the field.

Years of ACE, MQ and event-driven delivery, distilled into reference patterns, pipelines and governance. Integration built once, the same right way, every time — instead of a new snowflake per project.

Works with ACE · MQ · Kafka / Event Streams · API Connect · CP4I

The problem

Most integration estates are snowflake collections.

Every flow built slightly differently. Error handling that depends on who wrote it. Logging you can't correlate across systems. Onboarding that takes months because nothing is where a new engineer expects. Audits that turn into archaeology. None of this is a technology problem — it's the absence of a framework.

What's inside

Not a slide deck. Working assets.

Patterns

Reference patterns

Request/reply, pub/sub, batch, large-file, aggregation — proven templates for the flows every estate needs.

Reliability

Error handling & retry standard

One consistent model for failures, retries, dead-lettering and replay — the same in every flow, so operations is learnable.

Observability

Logging & monitoring model

Correlated, structured logging and metrics designed for tracing a business transaction end-to-end, not just a flow.

Delivery

CI/CD for ACE

Automated build, deploy and test pipelines for BAR files and containers — integration shipped like software, because it is.

Governance

Naming & conventions

Naming, versioning and repository structure that make an estate navigable by anyone — including auditors.

Security

Security & credentials

Standardized secrets handling, TLS everywhere, least-privilege service identities — compliant by default, not by exception.

What it changes

The same estate, minus the chaos tax.

  • Faster delivery — patterns instead of blank pages
  • Predictable quality across teams and vendors
  • Onboarding in weeks, not months
  • Audit-ready by default — evidence is a byproduct
  • Portable across on-prem, containers and CP4I
  • A foundation agents can safely build on

Agent-ready by design

Clean, governed APIs and events are exactly what agentic systems consume. Every interface the framework produces doubles as a future agent tool — which is why estates built on it reach agents faster.

ACE as the tool layer for AI agents
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Bring the framework to your estate.

We apply it on new delivery, retrofit it wave by wave, or hand it to your team with enablement.

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