Data sources you can use

Published on: 2024-08-10 18:48:28

Data sources can help enrich decision-making in real time.
Decisimo lets you integrate any RESTful API directly into your decision flow.

Minimum API requirements for integration?

The API must be accessible over the internet and return JSON or XML.

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Types of third party external data

Examples of third-party services you can integrate into Decisimo include:

  • Anti-fraud services
  • Address validation
  • Email checking & profiling services
  • Your internal data services

We have several templates you can use to speed up integration of popular data services. You can find guides for those templates here.

How to use results?

Any response from third-party data services can be used in the rest of the decision flow.

The output from each data service request is stored in the output attributes as JSON, based on the decision flow step where the request was made and the service name used in the definition.

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