Interoperability at scale: Building a centralized platform for multi-vendor data exchange in enterprise ecosystems

This article explores the design and implementation of a centralized data exchange platform that addresses the critical challenge of multi-vendor integration across diverse industries. The proposed solution mitigates the increasing complexity, costs, and scalability issues that organizations face when integrating with multiple vendors by serving as an intermediary layer that standardizes communication protocols. Through a three-tiered architecture comprising a Vendor Onboarding Platform, Centralized Data Store, and Application API, the system enables vendors to integrate once with the platform rather than with each individual application, while providing applications with a uniform interface to query multiple vendors. The article details the technical components, data flows, security considerations, and scalability approaches that make this architecture viable for enterprise deployment, ultimately creating a more efficient ecosystem that reduces integration complexity and improves the end-user experience.