Application Integration
The importance of application integration has increased substantially. Many businesses have realized that isolated and disparate application systems no longer guarantee competitive advantage or the best return on their investment. This is especially true in the case of application-to-application connections between customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM), and B2C and B2B initiatives. Information sharing among people, application systems and devices in various locations and business units provides more flexible and open access. The result is a faster, less costly approach to improving business results than investing in entirely new application systems.
Application integration bridges the gap between applications from front to back databases and systems. Because of different languages being used to create disparate applications, application integration demands multiple programming skills and extensive industry experience. For example, an application integration repository may cover the following forms of inter-application communication: XML documents, database tables, different files, HTML pages, screen formats, MOM messages, and so on.
At Hitachi Software, our consultants are current with the latest developments in the Enterprise Application Integration market. Armed with our application development experience and system integration background, and our partnership with application integration middleware vendors, we have the capability to deliver the results you expect by
- refining our customer's application integration needs,
- recommending the most appropriate technology,
- performing risk assessments,
- mapping the architectures, and
- performing efficient project management.
Our Phased Approaches
- Application integration needs consultation and definition
- Technology evaluation and vendor selection
- Integration infrastructure design and implementation
- Resource and skills planning
- Pilot project
- Risk assessment and problem management
- Application Integration implementation
- Client approval
- Conflict management
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