# Integration Architecture Decision Canvas

Canonical page: https://apiopscycles.com/resources/integration-architecture-decision-canvas

Language: en

Entity ID: integrationArchitectureDecisionCanvas

Choose the integration style and platform using evidence already gathered.

Category: canvas

## Outcomes

- A focused decision or design artifact that reuses earlier evidence
- Earlier canvas outputs are referenced instead of repeated
- The next decision, design step, or readiness gap is explicit

## How to use

1. Bring forward consumer commitments, impact, location, and capacity. Compare only viable styles and record the decision.
2. Complete only the sections that add a new decision or refinement.
3. Carry the resulting decisions forward to the next station.

## Canvas guidance

Choose the integration style and platform using evidence already gathered.

Bring forward consumer commitments, impact, location, and capacity. Compare only viable styles and record the decision.

License: CC-BY-SA 4.0

Authors: Osaango Ltd

### Reused inputs

Which commitments, capacity, location, impact, and domain decisions constrain the choice?

### Viable options

Which API, event, messaging, file, stream, data, connector, platform, or custom options remain viable?

### Selected approach

Which integration style, platform, or hybrid is selected?

### Decision rationale

Why does the selected approach fit best?

### Rejected alternatives

Which serious alternatives were rejected, and why?

### Open risks

What still needs validation before delivery or release?