While working on several Internet of Things projects with different customers in Europe, it became clear that Integration matters more than ever. Building an overall IoT solution requires many different technologies and skills. The Architect role is crucial to combining different services into one solid solution. Integration skills are extremely important in building robust and scalable IoT solutions. Every phase of the IoT value chain requires integration, since IoT solutions are distributed and decoupled by nature. Retro-fitting existing devices? Routing of telemetry data? Or even exposing analytics results through secured APIs? All these challenges require integration skills. Skills that are very familiar to specialists in the Integration business. This presentation will explain why these are great times to be an Integration expert and how we can help tackling current challenges.