Why is it that point-to-point integration has such a bad reputation and negative connotation? We’ve all seen the infamous hairball (or spaghetti) picture of information exchanges between systems that looks something like this:

But point-to-point is not the problem – variation is. When different teams develop point interfaces without standards or re-useable components and without shared governance and controls, the result is a tangled hairball every time.  (more…)