A major challenge for IT in addressing business integration is managing the diversity of hardware, operating systems, applications, platforms, data files... A lack of planning and proper risk mitigation can result in integration efforts being late, over budget, or judged by users to be a failure. We can help.
Our team of professionals provide ground-up system integration and deployment of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware (desktops, servers, and storage), custom application software, COTS software, government off-the-shelf (GOTS) software, and custom hardware. Whether integrating a single application, middleware or legacy integrations or a complete end-to-end enterprise-wide solution we use a standard process.
- Understand the existing architecture and new product.
- Conduct a gap analysis between the business needs & processes supported by existing systems and those supported by the new integration.
- Incorporate lessons learned from others who have integrated these products previously.
- Identify required resources for implementation success.
- Ensure the organization has the time, financial, personnel and technical resources necessary to support it during the acclimation period.
- Involve functional users to understand potential business issues to lower risk.
- Perform development for integration.
- Validate performance and scalability.
A smooth, prompt and cost-efficient process eliminates many disconnects associated with cost, time, resource availability and subject matter competence level. Using a mix of technology and tools for modeling and automating business processes enable real-time information sharing and its integrity across multiple systems, as well as higher organizational efficiency providing visibility across your business processes, so you can better serve your customers.