Enterprise Application Integration

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Efficiently integrate old with new

Your organization may have a typical application portfolio consisting of a mix of new and old applications, some connected, some isolated. Many of these applications still perform well in their own rights and would be very costly to replace.

New, open standards for communication, and advances in messaging technology, have made it more attractive to integrate systems both within your enterprise and across enterprises. Such integration may allow some of your legacy applications to continue operating while you replace others in a more gradual and strategic manner. You can integrate new, best-of-breed or custom applications with old to make the best use of your investment capital.

Recognize your challenges

You face two significant challenges when implementing enterprise application integration (EAI): creating a solid technical design and addressing your business issues. While all Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) provide multi-platform, pre-built adapters to ease the development effort in communicating with their systems, the technical infrastructure only represents a small portion of the complexities within an EAI solution.

Let us help you

  • We help you carefully plan your EAI implementation and ensure it's adaptable to change.
    Using our Agile methodology, a development process we use for custom application development, we plan an implementation that meets your particular business needs and takes today's constantly changing business environment into consideration.
  • We help facilitate communication and responsibility sharing across the many business units in your organization, critical for the success of your enterprise integration project.
    Our extensive experience helping multiple business units work together for a common goal means you get a seamless flow of integrated applications and services.
  • We help you successfully bridge the gap between your high-level business process decisions and your need to resolve technical issues.
    By offering both broad-view business process modeling and low-level technical development efforts, which require specialized knowledge of underlying systems, we give you everything your EAI project requires.

Maximize your existing technology investments

When it comes to integration, our philosophy sets us apart: we believe you should deploy only what you need, and only when and where you need it. Instead of completely replacing your old systems with new, we help you leverage your existing technologies and maximize your investments. Using our "leave and layer" approach, which involves incremental adoptions, we leverage off your existing integration efforts where possible.

Benefit from our experience

We have extensive experience integrating systems built with a wide range of technologies: .NET, Java, SAP, PeopleSoft, MSCRM, SharePoint, and MSCMS.

Our integration practice focuses on standards-based integration, leveraging off of existing components from the J2EE and .NET stacks respectively. This offers you a number of advantages:

  • allows your support teams to be made up of existing IT staff with J2EE/.NET skills, rather than specialist consultants
  • reduces proprietary vendor lock-in — by basing our integration infrastructure on industry standards, we pick and choose best-of-breed implementations from different vendors or custom build the components ourselves
  • increases your ability to integrate with business partners (B2B) using standard interfaces and protocols