Patterns that provide essential capabilities such as API management, event-driven messaging, and analytics streaming to other integration scenarios
| Enabling Integration Pattern | Process integration | Data integration | Analytics integration | User integration | Thing integration |
| API-Managed Integration | General recommendation | Possible exception | General recommendation | General recommendation | Reasonable alternative |
| Event-Driven Integration | Reasonable alternative | General recommendation | Reasonable alternative | Reasonable alternative | General recommendation |
| Process Automation | General recommendation | Possible exception | Possible exception | General recommendation | To be avoided |
| Stream Analytics | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation | Reasonable alternative | General recommendation |
| Digital Integration Hub | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation |
| Identity integration | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation | Reasonable alternative |
| Integration monitoring | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation | General recommendation |
| Data File Transfer | To be avoided | Possible exception | Possible exception | To be avoided | Possible exception |