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Speed time to value with WebSphere Business Integration
IBM WebSphere® Business Integration delivers five key capabilities to accelerate the transformation into an on demand business.
- Model and simulate business processes that can be instantly updated
- Integrate people, processes, information, and systems throughout your enterprise
- Connect with your customers and partners for an efficient business-to-business enterprise
- Monitor business processes from start to finish, using real-time performance data
- Manage your business more efficiently with the capability to review, analyze and improve processes and performance
Business disintegration plagues many companies today resulting in broken transactions, irate customers, lost revenue, and high cost associated with cleaning up the mess. So, not only does it cost you more to operate but you loose opportunity and associated revenue!
Business process within groups is generally well defined, but processes between and among groups has generally evolved in an ad hoc, "us versus them" atmosphere. The integration among the systems and applications that support these business processes generally reflect this disintegration. They are "integrated" via a collection of interfaces that have grown over the year. It looks like this....
and it typically costs 40% or even more of your IT development and operations budget. It should look more like this....
and cost you half what "interfacing" does while smoothing your transactions and giving you a true business integration environment.
Your people/processes/departments should be providing well defined services to each other that build into a smoothly operating organization. In terms of automating your business, you will be building a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with services connected on an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). For you, though, it just means operations are smooth and additions slide right in.
In summary, WebSphere Business Integration can help you Model , Integrate , Connect , Monitor , and Manage your business.
You can get on this circle anywhere and improve your business integration. Specifically, InCentric Solutions will help you analyze your business processes to determine how they do and should integrate, analyze how your systems and applications currently work together by looking at what "objects" they exchange, and, finally, look at the "risks" and define a prototype->pilot->production cycle or cycles that will improve your business.
Even though you can start anywhere on the circle, Model is a great place to begin because it facilitates your decisions as to what to do and shows you what the results will be.
For example, as you probably know if you are part of a public company, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act requires you to have internal controls to ensure correct financial reporting. To prove you have them you need defined processes. Using WebSphere Business Modeler to do this REQUIRED process definition you is a great idea because you can then move forward to optimize these processes and automate them as appropriate and obtain the associated cost savings and additional revenue.
You should not have to live with business disintegration.
Contact InCentric Solutions to enter the smoother business integration world.
Richard L. Mitchell (Rich)
Principal Consultant, Business Integration
InCentric Solutions, LLC
richard.mitchell@incentric.com
919.845.0270
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