Today´s business environment is more complex, faster paced, and less predictable than ever. New market opportunities and competitive pressures require today´s companies to have the flexibility and agility to respond to customer demands. But how does an organization achieve flexibility and agility? The answer is Business Integration.
Dante´s Business Integration engagements have improved the efficiency and effectiveness of our client´s business processes. The focus is on the quality and timeliness of information and the ability to provide it on demand, regardless of the source or location of that information. This approach ultimately reduces the time and cost of managing information and IT resources.
There are numerous Business Integration solutions involving different types of technology, but overall business agility and flexibility cannot be achieved just by implementing integration technology on a project-by-project basis. You need an overall strategy of how it all fits together.
Dante will assist you in creating an overall strategy of how it all fits together. Our related services include the following:
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
It is common for organizations to add multitudes of custom-built and packaged business applications to their IT infrastructure. The resulting complexity and decentralization of information encourages redundant processes and impedes timely access to relevant information.
Dante´s EAI solutions provide synchronization of processes and data which exist in a set of applications or systems. Once an EAI solution is implemented, a change in one system is propagated to the others, usually through messaging. A service-oriented architecture exposes the business logic as enterprise services, on which new applications can be based without requiring significant additional investment.
As a result, information previously hidden (or at least not immediately available) becomes available to the organization. The benefits that Dante provides can make your organization more agile and flexible, better able to respond to changes in your business environment.
Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
EII provides holistic views of enterprise entities across disparate systems. This may involve accessing data from systems and restructuring it, relabeling and/or reformatting it, and presenting it to the user for viewing and manipulation.
Dante´s EII solutions provide integrated, unified views by gathering data from multiple sources so that users can access the information immediately. Conversion or translation of the data may also be required, since the source data may have different labels and different formats on different systems.
With a Dante EII solution in place, your organization will begin to realize the benefits. A single data layer now provides applications with all the data they need, eliminating the complexity of dealing with diverse data sources. An appropriate EII solution can be invaluable in the management of data, while providing a streamlined approach to future application development and maintenance.
Business Process Management (BPM)
BPM is a methodology originating in the concept that every organization can be defined as a set of processes. Problems arise when evolving requirements result in the addition of processes that have not taken existing processes into consideration. BPM formalizes these processes into highly manageable and visible workflows.
Understanding workflows is the most difficult challenge in a BPM implementation, and getting it right is the single biggest factor in determining the degree of benefit derived from such a system. With extensive experience in analyzing end-to-end business processes, Dante is uniquely qualified to perform the studies and recommend the BPM product that best meets the business needs of the organization.
Our goal is to improve your multi-step business processes by eliminating manual data transfer and redundant processes wherever practical, automating those processes both within your organization and with suppliers, partners, and customers. The resulting time and cost efficiencies enable your organization to realize the benefits of streamlined business interactions without changing the underlying applications.
Dante also assists in applying BPM software in the development of an SOA. While SOA addresses the technology need for agility and adaptability, BPM addresses both the business and the technology needs. This commonality of purpose allows SOA functions to be configured into the BPM software, leveraging the investment and facilitating the management of deployed services and the evaluation of their integration and performance.
Portals
Today´s portals have evolved from their roots as Internet search engines to become decision support tools, providing comprehensive access to information, applications, and people. A B2E (Business to Employee) portal is typically designed to service roles found within the organization; a B2B (Business to Business) portal includes customers, vendors, and others outside the organization.
A portal designed by Dante is an empowering, unifying force that can provide many important benefits to the organization, including:
- Quicker, better informed decisions because of the availability of relevant information from diverse sources
- Timely, comprehensive access to corporate knowledge and resources from improved collaboration and community-building
- Enhanced employee performance because of a single, personalized, consistent view of the extended organization with sophisticated search capabilities
Dante has extensive experience in the design and implementation of portals. For a client who has no portal, our umbrella methodology completely covers architecture, planning, design, development, deployment, and organizational change management.
Dante services can be even more important to an organization which, in its haste to have the benefits of B2E and B2B portals, rushed into projects without adequate consideration for critical issues, such as security, integration with existing systems, ease of use, and maintenance.
We make sure that the portal strategy is aligned with the business drivers and then develop a content management solution to produce a portal that does the work, rather than a portal that provides access for the users to do the work.
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