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Today's approach to integration focuses on the ability to connect one machine with another. It enables businesses to synchronize data among applications and databases, but tends to be costly, time consuming, and highly skilled work which delivers few tangible benefits to business users.
From a user's point of view, the value of an 'integrated enterprise' is in the ability to both access and act upon any system in the enterprise, without having to know what application to use or whom to call.
Composite applications place the focus where it should be - on the people, not on the plumbing.
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Users need to relate information across systems so they can understand a situation and act on it. However:.
- Data is scattered in many applications, whose numbers are growing
- 80% of the end users require just 20% of the functionality from multiple applications
- Users still cannot obtain a complete real-time picture to "connect the dots" across systems
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When users cannot easily combine information to obtain the whole picture, costs accrue in the form of gaps,
bottlenecks, errors and missed opportunities such as lost lives, customers, revenue and / or profit.
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Users need to place the data in context to make better decisions. But where do we capture how
information in one system is related to information in another? How do we assist users with
synthesizing or fusing different types and sources of information?
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Solution: Composite Applications from Digital Harbor |
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- Information Integration: logically combine data and functionality across multiple sources
- Relationships: fuse and relate data to create useful information
- Visualization: deliver applications to users in a live, interactive format
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- Live functionality in the user interface, not just static pages and forms
- Unified views across business assets (customers, products, vendors, risks, targets, threats)
- Ask questions on any object to drill through applications
- Dynamic business activity monitoring (BAM) and exception management (sense and response)
- Understand and act in context to achieve situational awareness
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Return on Investment (ROI) to Business: |
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- Extract greater value from existing information assets (such as cross-selling)
- Optimize decisions by correlating "what", "when", "where", and "who" to determine "why" and "how"
- Reduce errors, training and bottlenecks (e.g. save $100,000.00 on a single transaction)
- Give your business more control over information (reduce gaps between business needs and IT's responses)
- Achieve business agility by improving time to implemention by three to five times
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