Marketing data integration: Don’t neglect the fundamentals - VentureBeat | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
  • Collectively exhaustive: Your connectivity layer should be “fit for purpose” for powering your entire stack, not just a component of it. 
  • Low maintenance: Your connectivity layer should eliminate, or at least minimize significantly, the overhead associated with maintaining third-party APIs. 
  • Open: Your connectivity layer should be partner and channel agnostic.  
  • Flexible: Your connectivity layer should be able to “translate” in order to support all of the various schemas utilized by each of the endpoints across your marketing stack. 
  • Secure: Your connectivity layers needs to be secure and reliable from end to end.