Enterprise Integration Patterns
What These Are: Common workflow patterns that solve real business problems. Use these as templates for your own integrations.Pattern 1: Customer Support Automation
Business Problem: Manual customer support is slow, inconsistent, and doesn’t scale. How This Workflow Solves It: Automatically analyzes customer messages, routes to appropriate systems, and provides instant responses.- Customer Query (Input Node): Receives customer message, email, priority
- AI Classification (Agent Node): AI analyzes sentiment, urgency, category
- Route to Agent (Conditional Node): Routes based on complexity/urgency
- Update CRM (API Node): Creates ticket in Salesforce/ServiceNow
- Send Response (API Node): Sends email/Slack notification to customer
- Instant response to customers (not hours later)
- Consistent categorization and routing
- Automatic CRM updates
- Escalation of urgent issues
Pattern 2: Data Processing Pipeline
Business Problem: Manual data validation and processing is error-prone and time-consuming. How This Workflow Solves It: Automated validation, AI-powered analysis, and quality control with human oversight.- Data Input (Input Node): Receives CSV/JSON data files
- Validation (Agent Node): AI checks data quality, format, completeness
- AI Analysis (Agent Node): AI extracts insights, patterns, anomalies
- Quality Check (Conditional Node): Routes based on confidence score
- Export Results (API Node): Saves to database/sends to downstream systems
- Automated data quality control
- Consistent analysis methodology
- Human review only when needed
- Real-time processing status
Pattern 3: Approval Workflow
Business Problem: Manual approval processes are bottlenecks that slow down business operations. How This Workflow Solves It: Automated content generation with human oversight only where required.- Content Generation (Agent Node): AI creates content based on templates/data
- Manager Review (Approval Node): Manager approves/rejects via email/Slack
- Legal Review (Approval Node): Legal team reviews for compliance
- Publish (API Node): Automatically publishes to website/sends to customers
- Faster content creation
- Consistent quality and tone
- Proper approvals maintained
- Audit trail for compliance