The integration strategies over the past decade have leveraged centralized Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies, middleware standard and systems integration resources, to fulfill systems integration requirements. This was used to create a knitted business process solution after the evolution from mainframe systems to the client server environment.
It was an approach we saw widely being used to integrate ERP (off the shelf packaged applications), legacy applications and data. What this left behind were integrated Business solutions which required extensive integration monitoring.
This gave rise for the need of an Enterprise Architect to govern these integrated solutions after implementation.
The run or support factor of these integration layers required monitoring and strong governance.
This left certain considerations to be noted when looking at re-architecting these integration layers.
Today’s integration challenges
However simplified enterprise integration can be, these knitted solutions still have their own set of challenges.
It’s about monitoring
It’s about niche skills
It’s about governance
It’s about integration mapping insight
It’s about qualifying the cloud promise around integration
Now that the integration challenges facing business are understood, what are the potential solutions to these challenges?
Technology Integration Solutions
One of the most suitable answers is SAP HANA, a next generation platform that now powers SAP Business Suite Applications. This platform brings together transactions and analytics into a single, in-memory system and features powerful integration tools like SLT, Replication Server, Data Services and Smart Data access to facilitate the integration of data in real-time or batch.
Businesses can benefit from the platform by fully leveraging the power of hardware and the advanced capabilities such as predictive, text analytic, spatial processing, and data virtualization on the same architecture. That means single database, one environment and therefore reducing TCO by consolidating heterogeneous servers into SAP HANA servers. This directly reduces the hardware, lifecycle management, and maintenance costs.
Integration efficiency is not the only benefit derived from this platform. The ability to get real-time insights along with the speed that it processes data gives you the potential to fundamentally reshape and improve business processes and becomes a strategy enabler and not hindrance.
How much longer can you hold on and avoid the inevitable?
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