Gateway to integration excellence
At the i8c Academy, we specialise in educating teams who work in the enterprise integration field.
From seasoned pro to new kid, our expert-led programmes cover everything from cloud integeation and API management to EDA and data synchronisation.
There’s no success without understanding. That goes double for our field. That’s why we’ve set up the 18c Academy – to help professionals of all skill levels learn and grow.
Here’s what the Academy offers:
- Learn from the best Get to know the latest trends, best practices and upcoming, guided by experienced specialists.
- Our place or yours Interactive, classroom-style sessions at 18c HQ or a location of your choice.
- Designed for real life Tackle practical, real-world scenarios tailored to your company’s technology stack(s).
We’ve got different courses to choose from, so there’s something for everyone.
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Introduction to Enterprise Integration
Full day – Classroom – 12 attendees max
Get a solid overarching view of essential technical concepts, architectures and market trends.
Course highlights
- Integration skills Get to know API management, application integration, B2B integration, data integration and event streaming.
- Message formats, protocols and service design Dive into the intricacies of message formats, protocols and service design principles critical for seamless integration.
- Technical implementation and tooling overview Learn about technical implementation and familiarise yourself with the different tooling options.
- Integration architectures Discover different integration architectures, organisational models and governance frameworks.
- Security Find out about key security aspects in the context of enterprise integration.
- Current and future trends Stay ahead of the curve by exploring trends like iPaaS, cloud integration, event-driven Architecture (EDA), service mesh and more.

Integration Patterns
Full day – Classroom – 12 attendees max
Want to design and build better integrations? Then join us for a deep dive into key asynchronous and synchronous integration patterns. During this course, we’ll cover all essential software patterns and concepts used in integration. Think queueing, proxies, VETRO, event streams, outbox patterns, CDC and more. Combining theoretical knowledge with practical applications, we’ll share a mental model that’s completely technology-independent.
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