Citizen integrators are business users who want to integrate applications and data faster without the help of an IT team. Nowadays, many companies are using non-technical persons who are tech savvy and are interested in software and data integration tools to move integration projects quickly. Citizen integrators use drag-and-drop interfaces to do tasks with ease.
Citizen integrators integrate data between IT teams and business users whereas citizen developers create applications without the help of IT. Nowadays, IT teams have much pressure due to huge backlogs and hence tools that are used to integrate without the help of IT department is used by citizen integrators to accomplish tasks.
Some examples of citizen integrators are,
The highly anticipated characteristics of citizen integrators are someone,
Some of the benefits of citizen integrators are,
According to Gartner, citizen integrators will rise to nearly 25% which helps in integrating applications and connecting processes. A high level of data is needed to connect these technologies and it is not right to wait for the IT team to step in and do the integration work. Citizen integrators with the help of tools can do integrations in a short time.
They will help citizen developers to deliver the integration that IT teams can't afford to do. Some of the trends that will drive citizen integrations are the high level of developer tools, IT and business user support, data reporting, etc.