IT bridging

Syncing your tools and data streams

ThinkAutomation is a useful IT bridging tool. It can link separate applications, connecting your systems and sharing data across key touchpoints.

1. Call a web service

If a product has a web API, ThinkAutomation can connect to it

2. Return the results

The results are then returned to pre-defined ThinkAutomation fields or variables

3. Run actions

ThinkAutomation uses conditional processing to talk to the product and tell it to do things

Call a web service

Connect to a web API

Parse data into legacy programs

Extract data from third party systems

Execute actions in external applications

Push updates to a WordPress site

Parse timesheets into accounting software

Hook into map/location APIs

Send data across a chain of systems

Close dysfunctional applications

Update an intranet page

Trigger programs to run

Parse spreadsheet data into finance software

Monitor running IT systems

Sync inbound messages to databases

Push content to cloud storage

Combine data from multiple web services

Trigger Twilio calls

Verify data before entry

Check and standardise data before storage

Log customer emails in a CRM

Event-driven extractions and actions

Filter, join and aggregate data

Migrate data from legacy programs

Trigger emails and alerts on app failure

Parse CVs into HR software

Hook third-party programs together

Analyse and report on app performance

Push data from document to document

And countless more

Hundreds of combinations

When it comes to IT bridging, ThinkAutomation offers thousands of different integrations, actions and process combinations.

You use logical ‘If’ statements to define how you want your programs to interact with one another. (If this happens in one application, then run this action in another.) For example:

If

Then

Then

If an email attachment is over a set file size

Send it to a third-party compression program

Upload compressed file to a cloud folder

If a numerical change is made to a customer CRM record

Extract the new data

Push it to your invoicing software

If an application stops responding

Force the program to restart

Send an alert to the IT team

Ready to bridge your systems?

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