Help to define and deliver the integration strategy for your organisation.
Get in touchA well defined integration strategy is essential for any organisation tackling digital transformation. Even if we don’t see it as digital transformation, it is still the essence of valuing connected data, processes and systems in the organisation. It is much more than a strategic choice of a vendor technology, and for many organisations is increasingly becoming part of their competitive edge in their market.
An integration strategy is a framework for making decisions about integration and for selecting the right capabilities to address the organisation’s needs. Success in integration is about developing a capability, which for some organisations may legitimately mean procuring the capability as part of their integration strategy.
Gives the organisation a prioritised roadmap for development of capability and delivery of automation
Enables the organisation to make sound decisions about integration
Elevates the discipline and capability in the organisation
Allows the organisation to better plan other application/systems investments in the organisation
Enables the organisation to get to a point where it can leverage it competitively
The work to develop an integration strategy starts with assessing your current capability, tooling and understanding what you need to align with the organisation’s strategy. We need to value the business processes and prioritise the needs for automation, connected systems and data across the organisation.
With data and integration so intrinsically entwined, it is difficult to be successful in integration without a strong data foundation. This means solid data models. Canonical data models or business object models are key to abstracting the physical data models of systems deployed from the way the organisation understands and refers to data or entities. That doesn’t necessarily mean embarking on a full blown data analysis and modelling exercise across an entire organisation. You can build and model data in an agile or iterative manner as long as you capture the data pertinent to the entire process being automated/integrated.
In order to understand the capability that needs to be established, it is common to break down the prioritised integration needs into one of three broad types of integration pattern:
This approach will help to categorise your functional needs in terms of technology capability.
Most larger organisations need more than one tool in their integration toolkit. Some technologies in the market lend themselves to rapid delivery of integration outcomes. Those same technologies often don’t look good at scale as a singular choice for an enterprise customer.
A diverse set of integration capabilities allows the organisation to effectively service a broader set of integration roles from integration specialist to citizen integrator and self-service integration. However, without a solid strategy and governance framework that same diverse set of capabilities can generate issues for an organisation.
Assess your current integration capabilities, architecture, processes and governance.
Define the vision and roadmap to achieve maximum integration benefits and business objectives.
Establish your integration architecture and platform, along with the skills to leverage, manage and scale them over time.
At Chakray we help organizations of all sizes establish effective integration strategies.
At Chakray you can choose from leading Integration technology providers: Workato, Azure, Boomi, Red Hat, Gravitee, WSO2 and more. Find the right one for your business.
WSO2 provides best of breed open source Integration, API and Identity Management technology. Their technologies power outcomes for brands such as Travis Perkins and Ebay.
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Boomi provides IPaaS technology built around a connector based pricing model. Recognised by Gartner as a leader in this space, Boomi is trusted by brands such as Sky and 23andMe.
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Azure provides a pay-as-you-go cloud computing platform encompassing a wide range of capabilities, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Their services empower organisations such as the NHS, Siemens, and Coca-Cola.
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Gravitee is the first event-native API Management platform that enables you to manage, secure, and govern synchronous and asynchronous APIs. Clients such as the Danish Data Supply Agency, the University of Helsinki, and the Imperial War Museum in London trust Gravitee with the implementation of their APIfication strategies.
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Workato is an automation platform, consistently recognised as a market leading solution in iPaaS, and trusted by brands such as Slack and Box to improve efficiency and experiences.
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Confluent Kafka is a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. Confluent is trusted to improve business intelligence and manage real-time events by Disney, Expedia and AO.
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At Chakray we can help you, contact us!
Get in touchThe most common mistake organisations make is the absence of an integration strategy. That doesn’t necessarily mean that a given integration initiative will not succeed, but it does mean that you are less likely to realise all the potential benefits, and over time your initiatives will become more costly and ineffective.
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In a connected world, where our customers and partners expect and rate organisations based on the connected experience they receive, an organisation’s integration capability is its core enabler to ‘connected’.
At Chakray, we help organisations of all sizes establish effective integration strategies. There are tech giants in the market today that can enter any market they choose to focus on. For them, ‘connected’ is table stakes. We believe our role in the market is to make it table stakes for everyone else.
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