The rapid change and disruption happening in the world of business have forced the business world to bring its highly ambitious, out-of-box digital transformation projects to a halt. Through this process, we’ve witnessed IT as well as business leaders work together to bring an alignment to their decision-making process to facilitate improved productivity, efficiency, and collaboration across the board. Business leaders are now exploring the critical role business users and IT play in increasing their value proposition.
This new approach to decision-making has introduced its challenges. IT as well as business leaders alike are looking at myriad automation and integration projects to deliver value and grow revenue. By constructing a fundamental foundation of governance and using a modern approach to automation and integration, companies can not only make informed business decisions but also deliver the value promised to customers
Top Business Priorities: Automation and Integration
In most cases, the biggest priorities of business leaders are to increase operational efficiency, improve productivity, and facilitate innovation in the wake of disruption.
And automation and integration can enable organizations to achieve these objectives easily and quickly. They are just as important to achieving these goals in empowering employees to work more quickly and deliver value to business customers. But as more systems require data integration, every integration becomes tedious and time-consuming to manage.
Companies Are Facing Complications Due to Security Issues
While a plethora of decision-makers acknowledged the requirements of automation and integration, many consider data security and governance issues to be the reasons for slow value generation.
Apart from security, other primary obstacles are data silos. Many business leaders consider security concerns made non-technical more skeptical about building data integrations and connections. They become overwhelmed with fears that could compromise the entire process.
Even a single breach of customer data can prove catastrophic for any business, but there are solutions for consolidating data without risking a security breach.
Taking A Self-Service-Powered Approach to Integration
Self-service data integration empowers business users to implement data connections securely, easily, and quickly. How?
Self-service data integration offers a secure, end-to-end encrypted environment for all data that helps companies transfer, share or exchange between companies in the application. It means data transfers take place over specific, encrypted data connections. First, the user is individually authorized and authenticated and then can register and log in to the application. This way, data security is ensured.
In addition, self-service data integration encompasses features such as pre-built application connectors, shared templates, and dashboards & intuitive screens that enable non-technical business users to implement data connections much more easily and quickly. Users can onboard customers up to 80 percent faster.
At the same time, IT becomes free from implementing long custom codes and complex EDI mappings. And instead, focus on more high-value, innovation-driven tasks. Therefore, IT and business users become productive.
With technological advancements in machine learning and security protocols, non-technical users can leverage artificial intelligence to understand and define accurate data semantics and build connections on the basis of those data rules. Additionally, a single click is required to acquire, breakdown, and implement bi-directional, complex data and stream it in real time to carry out business transactions.