When chaos takes over
Do you even know which services your business has? It's all too easy for documentation to become out of date as your applications continue to evolve - especially when there is no clear person in charge of maintaining current versions of all your documentation.
Before you know it, your developers will start working on different integration projects without knowing which services are available, which application should be able to consume which services, or who owns each service. Things can get complex fast, leaving your business integrations in confusing disorder.
Visualizing your systems and services is the answer
The human brain is good at pattern recognition, and visualization locks right into that. Mapping out the relevant information about your organization's systems and services visually in a single diagram rather than writing it in multiple documents facilitates new insight and highlights possible problems so much better.
Plus, seeing which services you have and how they are connected to your systems makes it easier to manage them. Visualization provides an efficient way to understand what you have and act on that information intelligently. For example, it's important to be able to identify and understand which services you have so you can take advantage of opportunities to reuse them.
Information for everyone
With visualization of how your systems, applications, and services are connected and how the information flows, you're able to base operational decisions and long-term planning for your business on the data and the insight your stakeholders get from seeing it all in one place.
The more team members, external partners, and other stakeholders in your business who have access to and understanding of this information, the easier it becomes to facilitate collective insight. For one thing, new employees, vendors, and investors can get on board quickly.
When information is presented in a way that developers and non-developers can understand the purpose and functions of each of your services, the overall result is faster and better decision making.
The best way to visualize your systems and services
Okay, so what do you need to implement this solution? Visualizing your services for better discoverability requires an intuitive interface where anyone can explore the data without being an expert programmer. You need a way for all of your stakeholders to access relevant and reliable information quickly.
Using a tool like Starlify allows you to visualize your systems and services in application networks for discoverability and insight. By making these assets searchable and discoverable, it's easy to find reusable integrations and services or redundant APIs. The result is warp speed for your team's integration delivery, saving your business time and money!