https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/best-practices/23540/connected-systemwhy we do use connected system if we can authenticate directly from integration?en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/90215?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:44:16 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:fd79eedd-d4db-430a-b598-d99649c49220Peter Lewis<p>Yep this is a great answer! One other reason is security - in some cases an administrator might configure credentials that should not be visible / editable by other users. In this case, the administrator can create a connected system and all other low-code developers can use the connected system without needing to know the credentials.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/90191?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:00:03 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:3f13e56a-7529-4857-bc58-0a3023d418d4subhashc0003<p>Thank you Hrishikesh</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/90186?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:36:07 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:bced6065-29e4-4f88-b660-938f17b3e5f4hrishikeshd997<p>The idea of using a connected system is that there can be multiple integrations sourced from it. If you create multiple integrations for same external system adding connection details for each of them, in future when connection details change you will have to update all integrations that depend on it whereas if you use a connected system, you will need to update credentials only in a single object. Connected system <span>also allows you to deploy connection information across environments and use different connection information for each environment which is not the case if you authenticate directly in Integrations.</span></p> <p><span><a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.4/Connected_System_Object.html">https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.4/Connected_System_Object.html</a></span></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>