These days, all systems and technologies across business ecosystems must function together. This encompasses processes built around business applications, systems, and people. What’s more, the wave of digital transformation has changed the way organizations connect and do business.
The question is, how can organizations reimagine their enterprise system integration strategies?
This blog post discusses enterprise system integration in detail while demonstrating how self-service and automation can reimagine enterprise integration.
What Is Enterprise System Integration?
Enterprise integration solutions consolidate processes, networks, technologies, and infrastructures, enabling disparate applications to work together. It empowers organizations to manage different business applications running simultaneously. This is necessary because it’s easy for an environment to become even more complex, and it’s difficult to manage disparate applications.
Enterprise application integration enables businesses to implement data connections and consolidate disparate applications, delivering the value promised to customers and growing revenue.
What Are the Advantages of Enterprise Integration?
Enterprise integration solutions enable companies to consolidate applications and build connections effectively. Here’s how these solutions help businesses:
- 1.Streamlined Data Flow
Enterprise integration solutions ensure that data flows seamlessly between different applications and systems within an organization. This results in real-time access to critical information, reducing data entry errors, and improving data consistency.
2. Better Interconnectivity
It connects operating systems as well as applications that power the business. It connects processes, business applications, users, partners, systems, and technological solutions within a particular enterprise.
3. Improved Productivity
Important B2B communications can be streamlined with the help of an enterprise integration solution. Modern solutions compile data so business users across different functions can access and interpret the data they require at any time.
4. Real-Time Access and Visibility
Organizations can leverage enterprise application integration solutions to ensure that B2B transactions happen in real time. Consequently, organizations can gain more visibility than they’ve had before.
5. Workflow Automation
All organizations’ on-premise and cloud-based applications are integrated and automated, eliminating the need for manual intervention, improving transparency, and managing simply.
5. Improved Customer Satisfaction
With access to real-time customer data, EAI solutions enable businesses to provide better customer service by responding to customer inquiries more effectively and providing personalized experiences.
6. Better Scalability and Security
Enterprise integration solutions are scalable, enabling organizations to add new applications and systems as they grow without major disruptions to existing processes. Also, they ensure data security and compliance with regulatory requirements by centralizing control over data access and monitoring data exchanges.
What Are the Challenges of Enterprise System Integration?
Although there are benefits of enterprise integration solutions, there are some challenges that come along with it.
- 1.Complexity
Connecting different systems, business applications, and processes sounds easy. But it isn’t easy. The IT and the business side need to be aligned along with the goals of enterprise integration. Otherwise, complexity is apparent.
2. Speed
Building connections with customers and partners takes time. IT teams take weeks or months of calendar time to create data connections. When business users take time to connect with customers, it becomes difficult to deliver the value promised to customers without delay.
3. Lack of Control
In legacy solutions, the control of building connections and integrating data and applications falls primarily on IT integrators. IT teams need to create custom codes and data mappings to implement those connections. This not only burdens them but also incurs delays.
How Can Self-service Resolve the Challenges?
Self-service integration solutions enable enterprises to empower non-technical business users to implement data connections and consolidate applications while freeing IT to focus on more high-value priorities.
Self-service integration solutions enable non-technical business users to create data connections much more quickly. Users can rely on shared templates, pre-built application connectors, AI-data mapping, and dashboards to implement onboarding connections 80 percent faster and integrate enterprise applications. At the same time, IT become free to devote time to focus on more high-value tasks.
Because automated features such as AI and ML are used, the problem of complexity is resolved. The data-driven operations become simple and quick.
Now, when business users can connect with customers faster, it becomes easier for companies to identify and meet the requirements of those customers. As a result, customers feel satisfied with the service. It’s more likely that these happy customers will stay with the company longer and buy more products or services, creating new revenue streams.
Learn how Adeptia’s self-service data integration solution can help organizations overcome challenges in enterprise integration and drive value.