Business Integration has increasingly come into focus as new market opportunities and strategies make the smooth integration of business-enabling platforms and applications critical to a successful, adaptable business strategy.
Ironically, although many companies talk about Business Integration, very few are actually able to do it well. That’s where Emeldi comes in...
Our Business Integration professionals will be working closely with your own to transition your technology into a business-enabling engine that will deliver a level of flexibility that will delight your customers, but which we regret to say will make you few friends among your competitors.
Our starting point is based in our highly successful Emeldi Ice methodology (hyperlink). We start by focusing on one thing…and only on one thing: the business ‘idea’.
A critical part of our belief system is that any integration challenge becomes much easier to tackle, and will deliver a higher success yield once the core ‘idea’ as viewed by the Business Sponsor is well understood.
At this stage we do not worry too much about the detail of an integration solution; to attempt to shape a solution too early is usually an error that is very costly to repair later in the Business Integration process.
Doing Business Integration well means accepting early on that it is not simply an IT or technology exercise.
From the outset of your Business Integration project, Emeldi’s specialists are actively looking for some “systemic” content in your organization. By ‘systemic’, we mean that we are using Systems Thinking to analyze your business in terms of a complex ‘system’ comprising: people, processes, events, technologies and constraints.
Only by developing a thorough understanding of your organization in this way can any resulting work deliver the benefit that you really need. This is not an easy or simple task; but here again our industry background and wealth of domain knowledge comes to the rescue. The Emeldi Knowledge Base is literally brimming with ‘blueprints’, examples of industry best practice and ways to do things ‘smarter’ in virtually all functional areas of a modern Service Provider. Working closely with your people, we overlay the blueprint on our systemic model of your business, and we gain agreement on which ‘gaps’ or deltas, if any, need to be addressed by further analysis.
This provides you with a useful shortcut, avoids re-inventing the wheel, and contributes to our overall philosophy of de-risking your project at every opportunity.
In common with many industry visionaries, we are concerned more with Process than with technology. Technologies come and go; process on the other hand, if well designed, may be retained, expanded and adapted to a continually changing environment.
Once your process model demonstrates a flexible vision for supporting the business not only today but for the foreseeable future, it is time to consider how it maps to the IT / Technology architecture that you either have or that you will need to implement.
Emeldi’s Ice approach means that we will be ready to provide all the IT and Technology Integration that you will be needing at exactly the right moment. Our experience and expert domain knowledge crosses all boundaries in a modern Communications Network business, and we have in-depth, practical experience of practically every OSS or BSS application in the market today.
Our architecture and IT Systems professionals will be working closely with your own to transition your technology into a business-enabling engine that will deliver a level of flexibility that will delight your customers, but which we regret to say will make you few friends among your competitors. That’s Emeldi Business Integration!
Talk to us today, and see how Emeldi can address your own specific Business Integration challenges.