The Benefits of Enterprise Integration Software

Businesses that invest in enterprise integration benefit significantly from the process. This integration can create significant advantages for the company’s operations and how it handles data. Among these benefits are:

Agility: Companies can notice and capitalize on market trends, and new software releases faster than the competition. A few hours could mean the difference between riding a trend or missing it altogether in the constant arms race of the marketing world.
Automation: Workflow processes can be automated through API calls. Automation allows free flow of data between different systems, allowing units such as the marketing system to automatically access the CRM to send emails for follow-up, customer service, or customer feedback. There’s no need for a human to be present.
Flexibility: Employees don’t need to learn five or ten different suites to perform their job functions. Enterprise application integration allows for a single dashboard interface, making it much easier to teach new hires how the system works.
Simplification: One of the most vital benefits that enterprise integration offers is a much simpler method of doing things. Each employee doesn’t have to worry about the nuts and bolts of the system they use. The integration suite just works, getting data from one point to another seamlessly.
Data Flow: With the API serving as a translator, data can be passed between different integrated systems securely without worrying about corruption between exporting and importing. The result is a far more efficient method of transferring data without the bottlenecks that format changes would introduce.

The Challenges of Integration

As a company grows larger, integration becomes more important. Departments start relying on data generated in other areas of the business for them to function. Within smaller areas of the company, integration tends to be more straightforward. When the integration scope starts to encompass the larger enterprise, complications begin to arise. This problem is an expected side-effect of integration.

As Harvard Business Review notes, enterprise-wide integration is still a mostly “unnatural” process that requires specialized handling to pull off successfully. That’s why companies rely on software to aid in their enterprise integration.

Enterprise integration software is vital because it creates a singular interface for all the different applications and machines. It uses an Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) to remove the disorganization between multiple systems of various types. The IDE does this by leveraging application programming interfaces (APIs). APIs simplify things by giving programs a single point of interfacing with a particular application. Instead of having to learn the ins and outs of twenty different software packages, the IT department only needs to know how to use the IDE. This simplification makes solution development and upgrading systems much more efficient.

Arista has worked with many industries to architect and design their integration needs. Contact us today to find out how integration can help you manage your applications and processes with data seamlessly for business growth.