Navan Governed Integration Architecture

Overview

Design a Navan integration architecture with explicit trust, data, identity, and accounting boundaries. This workflow produces an auditable decision or artifact before any live action.

Prerequisites

• Access to the selected tenant's current Navan Help Center and contracted integration documentation.
• A named business owner and data owner for the travel or expense workflow.
• A non-production evidence set with secrets and traveler data removed.

Current Contract

A durable design separates vendor access, intake, immutable staging, normalization, policy, publication, write-back, reconciliation, and audit. It supports the tenant's actual API, SFTP, SCIM, SSO, or direct-integration contracts without assuming one universal transport.

Authentication

Place secrets at the ingress boundary, bind each identity to one tenant and purpose, and keep administrative, ingestion, and write-back privileges separate.