Integration with financial applications

Researching PointLoyalty cooperation options with existing financial applications we discovered that not that many companies are really ready for online integration despite the claims of having open architecture, easy integration, plugins support, etc. Some companies provide a list of add-ons implemented by third-party developers which in many cases lack production quality. The term “open architecture” is also understood differently from vendor to vendor.
But there are some nice exceptions. Most often they are relatively young firms who need to design their products at the highest level to get advantage over existing competitors. These young companies do not need to support compatibility with earlier versions and eager to use new technologies. We believe these young players will define the future of technologies open for integration on SaaS market, if large competitors will not buy them out.