Why You Should Rethink Integration Management

Businesses have been considering integrations and integration management for quite some time.  And the solutions to date have been working, albeit at a high cost in areas like proprietary software, custom programming, one-to-one integration chains, and the creation of software dependence. 

As technology advances, the way that integration management is done has also been advancing.  It must, because companies want to remain competitive and to do so must become more agile and efficient.  Today’s best integration technology is taking advantage of advanced architecture and design to handle all application integrations in one place, while prioritizing integration transactions in a client managed, PnP portal that has the internal capability to transform data and perform business analytics. 

How does the older integration technology look?  Answer the questions below to find out.  

No = 1 point.  

Yes = 0 points 

Scores of = < 1 indicate that the latest in integration technology is not at work in your enterprise. 

Questions

Are your integrations managed in-house? YES/NO

Are your integrations managed in one solution? YES/NO

Are your integrations PnP? YES/NO

Do your integrations provide BI analytics? YES/NO

Are your integrations monitoring all application integrations? YES/NO

Will your platform integrate any disparate systems? YES/NO

Does your integration platform allow data transformation? YES/NO

Create your integration solution create a software dependency? YES/NO

Does your integration solution allow communication between enterprise ecosystems? YES/NO

Does your integration solution manage component supplier communication? YES/NO

Cutting edge, innovative integration technology improves: 

• Supply chain disruption 
• Difficulty in collecting financial data 
• Disparate system silos 
• B2B data communication breakdowns 
• M&A transitional challenges 
• Parent-subsidiary transactional requirements 
• Costly custom integration writes and external management 
• Software particular dependencies 
• Cumbersome management on many platforms 

If your integration management isn’t measuring up, it’s time to search for a new solution to achieve the business efficiency and agility that will take your enterprise to the edge of the integration frontier.