Build Effective Enterprise Integration on the Back of Business Process
From the backend to the frontlines – let enterprise integration help your business processes fly.
RETIRED CONTENT
Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Undergoing integration projects without a strategy in place results in:
- Unmanageable and unscalable point-to-point integration between applications
- Insufficient data integration that does not facilitate information and insight sharing across the organization
- Ineffective business processes that contain redundancies or conflicting activities
Defining a clear enterprise integration strategy allows your organization to:
- Ensure that subsequent integration projects have a common direction and align with corporate goals
- Effectively communicate the tangible and intangible benefits of enterprise integration that are relevant to your organization
- Secure stakeholder buy-in by addressing the business processes that are most critical to your organization’s success
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Module 1: Position Enterprise Integration
The Purpose
- Discuss the general approach for creating a holistic enterprise integration strategy.
- Define the initial direction and drivers.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Strategy development team with responsibilities identified.
- Clear initial direction for the strategy based on senior stakeholder input.
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| 1.1 | Define the driving statements for your EI strategy. |
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| 1.2 | Develop a RACI chart. |
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| 1.3 | Discuss the current state of enterprise integration. |
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| 1.4 | Establish the initial direction of your strategy by surveying senior stakeholders. |
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Module 2: Explore the Lenses of Enterprise Integration
The Purpose
- Build a comprehensive map of what integration looks like for your target business processes.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clear documentation of the integration environment, encompassing process, data, and applications.
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| 2.1 | Develop level-0 and level-1 business capability diagrams. |
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| 2.2 | Identify the business processes of focus, based on relevance to overall corporate drivers. |
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| 2.3 | Complete process flow diagrams. |
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| 2.4 | Begin identifying the applications that are involved in each step of your process. |
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| 2.5 | Detail the connections/interactions between the applications in your business processes. |
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| 2.6 | Draw a current state diagram for application integration. |
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| 2.7 | Identify the data elements created, used, and stored throughout the processes, as well as systems of record. |
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Module 3: Develop the Enterprise Integration Strategy
The Purpose
- Review the outputs of the integration mapping activities.
- Educate strategy team on the potential integration solutions.
- Consolidate the findings of the activities into a compelling strategy presentation.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Integration improvement opportunities are identified.
- Direction and drivers for enterprise integration are finalized.
- Understanding of the benefits and limitations of some integration solutions.
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| 3.1 | Discuss the observations/challenges and opportunities for improvement. |
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| 3.2 | Refine the focus of the strategy by conducting a more detailed stakeholder survey. |
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| 3.3 | Review the most common integration solutions for process, applications, and data. |
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| 3.4 | Create a future state integration architecture diagram. |
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| 3.5 | Define the IT and business critical success factors for EI. |
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| 3.6 | Articulate the risks with pursuing (and not pursuing) an EI strategy. |
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| 3.7 | Quantify the monetary benefits of the EI strategy. |
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| 3.8 | Discuss best practices for presenting the strategy and organize the presentation content. |
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