Pega Platform includes powerful and flexible facilities for defining data structures and managing data. You can define individual fields, arrays and repeating groups, multilevel structures, and a variety of other data structures. To support the exchange of data with other systems, your application can convert a Pega Platform data structure into a fixed record layout, an XML document, a message, or a relational database row.

Modern enterprise applications and their data sources are rarely contained on the same system. Integration protocols and interoperability standards federate the data traditionally locked away in legacy systems of record, allowing you to design applications that link multiple physically distributed resources. Pega Platform provides a comprehensive range of data and integration capabilities that simplify connecting your application to these distributed resources to enable easy, flexible, and real-time access to the rich data that they store.

Integration is a broad subject that applies to many aspects of Pega Platform. Pega Platform natively supports a range of integration standards and communication protocols, allowing you to focus on the business requirements of your application rather than on connectivity issues. For more information, see the following articles. For integration on Pega Cloud, see Integrating Pega applications in Pega Cloud with external systems.

• Data modeling
• Adding a data object
• Adding fields
• Adding relationships
• Updating your data model
• Data extraction
• Pega APIs and services
• Data pages
• Integrating with Pega APIs and services
• Managing integrations
• Integrating with file and content management systems
• Pega Open Robotics integration
• Integrating DocuSign with Pega Platform
• Integrating with an email provider
• About FTP Server data instances
• Integration systems
• About Interface Generator data instances
• About JCA Resource Adapter data instances
• About JMS Listener data instances
• About JMS MDB Listener data instances (Data-Admin-Connect-JMSMDBListener)
• About JMS Producer Model data instances
• About JMS Transport data instances
• About JNDI Server data instances
• About MQ Listener data instances
• About MQ Server data instances
• Service Request Processor data instances
• About Service Package data instances
• About Class Generator data instances
• About Connect Generator data instances
• About Metadata Converter data instances
• About Registry Java Property Transform data instances
• Kafka data instances
• Service File rules
• Service JMS rules
• Service SOAP rules
• Service REST rules