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Thursday November 20 2008

Systems Integration

If they talk together, they work together.  If they work together, they work for you.

A major reason computer systems often don’t deliver the benefits they’re supposed to is a lack of integration.

For business, software programs and the hardware they run on rarely work in isolation. Usually they have to work with other systems, exchanging data and messages, each application a cog in a much greater machine – each one being a small part of the end-to-end processes that make your business a success.

There is a great variety of different techniques and technologies for integration between applications, computers and networks. Some are relatively simple, some are fiendishly complex, and the costs vary from virtually nothing to the hundreds of thousands.

Dataclass can assess your existing systems and business requirements and make concrete recommendations on how to integrate – to make things work together – to create the ‘joined up business’.  Nothing has the potential to save you more money.

It's very important to understand what business systems are intended to achieve – to understand the processes – and then design integration solutions that provide what’s needed.

It has to be done with an eye to what is suitable now and what may realistically be needed in the future.

And it’s vital to understand the relative merits and drawbacks of the different kinds of integration solutions. Choosing wrong can be an expensive fiasco. Getting it right can save money from day one.

Integrate: Save time, money and worry