With factories around the world jumping onto the IT bandwagon, IT engineers are on the lookout for products and solutions that allow them to easily connect their factory’s OT systems to IT networks. Although IT engineers are generally well versed in the various IT protocols used to transmit data across a network, they are less familiar the many OT protocols used in their factories. In this white paper, we review the key issues that IT engineers face in pursuit of this goal, and suggest products and solutions they can use to quickly get up to speed on how to convert from the various OT protocols to familiar IT protocols, such as RESTful APIs.