Business Integration
Our services enable you to achieve seamless integration of home-grown custom applications, packaged applications, business processes, legacy systems, and trading partners. We address integration challenges by providing a layered approach to integration at the data, application, platform, and process levels. This is done through effective use of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business-to-Business Integration (B2B), and Business Process Modeling (BPM).
Our proposition for Business Integration includes:
- Expertise in webMethods, a leading Business Integration tool.
- Effective use of proven methodologies and best practices.
- Experience in implementation and execution of solutions in Business Integration.
- Leverage of the expertise and knowledge of our Centers of Excellence (CoEs) for WebServices and Business Intelligence.
Integration service offerings:
We offer Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions, which not only address sharing of data across disparate systems, but also integrate business processes with intelligent routing capabilities. We enable information flow in real-time to provide data to the right place at the right time.
Our Business-to-Business Integration service enables transactions across organizational boundaries. We offer solutions using industry-specific standards like X12, UNEDIFACT EDI Transactions, and PAPINET. We also provide solutions involving non-standard transactions like Flat file and custom XMLs.
Our BPM solutions help you manage processes and rules to conduct business faster, and in a smarter and more efficient manner. Our BPM offering using webMethods equips you to meet the challenges of managing an ever-changing business. We help you leverage your investments in legacy systems and provide seamless integration with visibility of business processes, using Business Process Modeling.
Thought methodology:
Our methodology is based on our experience in and the best practices of the industry. We address complex integration challenges with simple solutions in webMethods. We use webMethods's GEAR methodology effectively for designing high-availability architecture, for capacity planning, security, canonical strategy, performance tuning, change management, and collaborative development environment setup.
The inception phase involves making a detailed analysis of the enterprise systems, applications, platforms, and processes that need to be integrated.
This is followed by the definition phase, where the interfaces for implementation are identified and a detailed Integration Requirements Specification document is created. During this phase, the architecture and high-level design specification are built, and a Proof-of-Concept is carried out to validate the architecture and bring out the complexities involved.
The implementation phase involves coding and testing of adapters, mapping, transformation, routing rules, and building business processes. The interfaces are developed and tested in multiple iterations rather than in a one-iteration approach.
Then, during the testing phase, the interfaces are tested end-to-end across disparate applications and platforms.
Technical expertise:
The ThoughtFocus integration team consists of experts in webMethods EAI, B2B and BPM tools and methodologies. Our team has been providing quality services and consulting support to fortune 500 companies for many years.
Most of our team members are webMethods certified. The team is cross-trained and experienced on multiple tools, which gives them the knowledge and expertise needed to implement best-of-breed solutions.
