Application Integration

Application Integration

According to Gartner, application integration accounts for approximately 35 percent of the total cost of application design, development, and maintenance in a typical enterprise, be it large, medium, or small. Since integration is vital to all modern enterprises, the crucial issue is how to integrate, not whether to integrate. Application integration services can offer your business the ability to modernize, consolidate, and coordinate operations in your enterprise.
With Bell Integrator™ Application Integration Services, you can expect a reduction in cost of ownership with increasing ROI and business value. And you'll reduce risk by leveraging our worldwide pool of professionals.
According to Gartner Research, 75% of corporations have 6+ different database systems in their information environments. Handling multiple systems cause 3 main problems that affect a company's overall profitability:
  • Lost employee time and additional employee effort for transferring process-related data from system to system.
  • Missed or uncertain data, requiring manual data consistency checks
  • Manual data verification between different systems, repeating discrepancies, frequent corrections
  • Practice of exporting and importing records to and from files, or even manual input of data already contained in one system to other systems
  • Low information availability and huge amount of effort spent on data mining, aggregation, and validation.
  • Frequently exchanging emails to exchange information instead of having a single data access point
  • Weak taxonomy and metadata management due to siloed data sources containing scattered parts of information
  • The need to manually collect, aggregate, normalize and compare data in different corporate data sources for decision-making
  • Additional IT team work required to support changes, systems maintenance, access rights management, etc.
  • IT team is overloaded with user requests for data formalization, extraction, and reporting automation
  • Custom programming is required to complete tasks instead of easy-of-use business objects and rules management

Application Integration Services

Depending on customer needs and IT infrastructure, we offer 2 different integration approaches:

Enterprise Service Bus Implementation

For large organizations that have more than one IT system, we offer a full-cycle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) implementation. We enable service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on the most up-to-date open source and commercial ESB products.
You benefit from the full-cycle service which includes ESB deployment and stabilization, full technical documentation, further system improvements, IT team training, and support and maintenance outsourcing.

Hub-and-Spoke Integration

We offer development and implementation of an enterprise integration point that will connect your databases and applications to a central hub, allowing data interchange and synchronization and enabling centralized data access and business process management. This would be suitable and cost-effective solution even for SMBs and can be easily scaled and transformed as your business grows. We also offer portal integration that comprises data mining solutions and a presentation layer providing a single data access point to various corporate data sources.

Key Features

  • Auditing existing Application Integration
    • Document integration points of customer's software
    • Evaluate compliance of customer tools and methods with Application Integration requirements
  • Designing Application Integration
    • Develop functional design
    • Choose Integration Platform
    • Design Application Integration architecture
  • Developing Application Integration
    • Iterative development of application integration according to requirements
    • Internal quality assurance
  • Customizing Application Integration
    • Adaptation of existing application integration to new requirements
  • Our Approach
    Depending on customer needs and IT infrastructure, we offer two different integration approaches:
    • Enterprise Service Bus Implementation
      For large organizations that have more than one IT system, we offer full-cycle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) implementation. We enable service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on the most up-to-date open source and commercial ESB products.
      You benefit from full-cycle service, which includes ESB deployment and stabilization, full technical documentation, further system improvements, IT team training, and support and maintenance outsourcing.
    • Hub-and-Spoke Integration
      We offer enterprise integration point development and implementation that will connect your databases and applications to a central hub, allowing data to be exchanged and synchronized, as well as centralized data access and business process management. This means a suitable and cost-effective solution even for SMBs that can be easily scaled and transformed as your business grows.

Benefits

  • Improved interoperability and business agility
  • Increased integration of new enterprise technology with existing systems
  • Enhanced value from related technology investments
  • Increased standardization and interaction across business functions
  • Lower costs and reduced risks by utilizing COTS applications