Are you running an integration project and failing to make the headway you need or expect? This is commonly because teams try to adopt standard agile development approaches to Integration. Enterprise Integration is, however, a distinct discipline. The good news is that we have a tested set of measures we can apply to get your project back on track.
Enterprise Integration is a distinct discipline. It’s our core competence. We have hundreds of years of combined experience in this area.
When you talk to us, you’ll immediately recognise the depth of expertise we have and the breadth of knowledge. Whilst we primarily focus on integration, our consultants due to their wide range of knowledge, are more than often able to provide guidance in other areas of a large enterprise rollout.
Many customers come to us initially for this. They want to draw on our combined experience to understand what’s going wrong and provide guidance to their struggling teams.
Experience is a great help. Experience combined with a workable delivery system is what gets you to where you need to be.
We have developed a comprehensive process model for the delivery of Enterprise Integration, which has been tested and refined on customers over the past 20 years.
While the mainstream software development world has been embracing Agile, we have discovered that this alone will not help deliver your integration projects. Iterative, yes. Do we do everything in the agile development playbook? No.
The reason is simple. Integration is about delivering business processes. You can’t simply part-implement a process and “get feedback”. It actually has to work to a high level of completeness.
Our integration delivery process bites off one or more processes at a time and delivers them using lean principles to achieve maximum efficiency.
There’s a clear link between processes and people. Processes define what people (and systems) have to do, roles define who is doing them.
We have identified the 7 essential roles to successfully deliver Enterprise Integration in your organisation. Each of these roles is defined, and the skills are teachable.
When people understand their role and what’s required of them, they can become more productive and happier because they know what it means to do a good job. A happy, motivated and engaged team can achieve and deliver incredible things.
Modern cloud platforms provide a toolkit to deliver all the integration services you need at an affordable cost. The downside of this is that you need to be able to plug all these services together, understand how to monitor and manage them, and ensure that everything is secure and scalable.
We have done this hard work for you. Our 345 AIR solution provides infrastructure templates that can be rapidly deployed so that you quickly get a fully functioning. Typically with a couple of weeks’ planning and a couple of weeks installation, you can have an industry-leading platform.
A consistent platform is an important enabler for your development and support teams. You can plan, monitor and manage workloads effectively and optimise your costs.
Our 345 AIR integration delivery system contains all the tools you need to be able to deliver Enterprise Integration effectively.
We have a suite of project planning, estimating and costing tools so that right from the start you are in control of spending.
We then have tools that support every step of the way through the process: we increase developer productivity by providing a virtual workstation build with a full software stack; we help you define and specify through a comprehensive template library; we enable you to capture and reuse code through our pattern library; we allow you to track progress through defined measures, KPIs and dashboards.
Enterprise integration involves connecting your systems and automating your information processes.
Find out how your organisation’s operations will improve through adoption of enterprise integration.
Find out more about what makes an organisation a good fit for integration.
