Introduction to REST APIs and Syndeia RESTful Integration

Enterprises deploying digital engineering solutions need to integrate 100s to 1000s of tools, services, and data sources - commercial (COTS), government (GOTS), home-grown, and open source (OSS).

Syndeia 3.5 brings a generic RESTful Integration capability that enables users to connect to any service, tool, or data repository that provides a REST API, directly from the Syndeia Dashboard with no code. Users can add requests to the REST API endpoints for each service/tool, curate collections of requests, and view detailed responses in the Syndeia Dashboard. Users can connect RESTful artifacts to artifacts in other repositories integrated with Syndeia (e.g. Jama Connect, Jira, Windchill, etc.), including other RESTful repositories, to build digital threads. Video tutorials demonstrating the RESTful integration capability are included with the 3.5 release, such as with Jenkins CI/CD automation software, Vitech GENESYS, DataStax AstraDB, OpenMBEE, and others.

Since most modern applications provide a REST API, the number of services and tools that can be integrated with Syndeia is now limitless. The RESTful Integration capability in Syndeia 3.5 will make it possible for any digital engineering repository, that provides a REST API, to be connected with digital threads.

To learn more, check out the demonstration videos and hands-on tutorial exercises in the next sections.