What are Liaison's APIs, integrations, and connectors?
While it's relatively simple to extract applicant data, you may need to import it into another system on your campus. Additionally, you may need to download applicant documents and move them to your institution's document management system. Using our APIs, integrations, and connectors, you can simplify these processes and ensure your institution's data management systems and our application databases "talk" to each other by creating commands to perform specific tasks (i.e., extract this data/document, tell me when it’s ready, give me the file to download).
By using our APIs, integrations, and connectors, you just "set it and forget it," meaning you'll never have to worry that a download isn’t occurring, or that it was downloaded to the wrong location. With our APIs, integrations, and connectors, it just works. Furthermore, because our APIs and connectors can be called on-demand, you decide when you want to run your downloads (e.g., every day, or even every few hours).
To effectively use an API, integration, or connector, you'll need to:
- Identify what data you need (i.e., what applicants and what application data).
- Define where you need to send it.
- Determine how often you need to send it.
When using Liaison's integration tools, keep in mind that you have several options, including:
- API: application programming interface, a type of software interface that offers a service to other pieces of software.
- Connector: a tool that automatically moves standard data from one product to another (e.g., Informatica, SFTP, etc.).
Select Your API or Integration
Liaison knows how important integrations and automation are in making our solutions work on your campus. When deciding which of our APIs or connectors to use, we encourage you first to discuss with your admissions and IT teams how you plan to manage your admissions process and how that may align with your institution's data management systems. This can then help you select which API or connector is best for your institution.
- If your campus already uses WebAdMIT™ to manage your applicant data from one or more Centralized Application Services (CASs) and you’re interested in learning more about integrating applicant data and documents into your other on-campus CRM/SIS/document management systems, check out our WebAdMIT API and Integrations!
- If your campus has not adopted WebAdMIT™ or Liaison Outcomes™ for admissions management but you still need to integrate CAS data and documents into your CRM/SIS/document management systems on campus using technology, take a look at our CAS API.
- If you are a current user of SlideRoom and would like to explore the API tool set available to integrate data into your on-campus systems, review the information on the SlideRoom API site.
- If your campus is adopting Liaison Outcomes™ and you’d like to see how to use its integration tools and APIs on your campus, review the information on the Outcomes API and Integrations.
- If you are a current user of EMP and would like to explore the connector tool set available to integrate data into your on-campus systems, review the information on the EMP Integrations.
- If you are a current user of TargetX and would like to explore the connector tool set available to integrate data into your on-campus systems, review the information on the TargetX Integrations.