Systems Integration & IT Services For Companies Large and Small

Systems integration is crucial to maximizing your company's efficiency and effecting enterprise-wide responsiveness to business dynamics. An organization characterized by "information silos" is not positioned for growth. In this economy, efficient use of resources that help a company expand their presence and client base, is everything.

Ossia Systems can assist in designing a more streamlined way to collect, store, process and retrieve your information from enterprise systems, legacy applications and third-party sources. Our experience in systems integration is significant; our knowledge, deep. We can help make cross-enterprise information sharing a defining, wealth-building attribute of your organization.

When people, processes and applications are not working together, when an enterprise is not fully integrated, the results can be devastating. IDC, a global provider of market intelligence, estimates that an organization employing 1,000 knowledge workers loses $5.7 million annually due to reformatting of information as the workers move among applications. Not finding information costs the same organization an additional $5.3 million a year.

Without Strong Systems and Process Integration You Risk:

Production downtime
Inability to fully leverage information assets to maintain competitive edge
Loss of immediate and future sales opportunity
Interruptions in supply-chain and partnership networks
Gaps in data synchronization between business systems, activity centers or clustered infrastructure
Vulnerability to fall out of compliance with corporate or governmental standards and policies

Distributed computing and its complimentary tools - web applications, web services and web-enabled desktop applications, has led to a revolution in rapid information sharing from a variety of sources within an enterprise and among its associated vendors, suppliers and partners. But getting the most out of any systems integration initiative will require formulating answers to numerous questions, some of which may include:

Does the company have any experience with various departments working together towards a common goal, with special concern for the needs of the end-user?
Should the user community (internal users and outside business partners) be involved in reviewing the integration initiative, and what should that level of involvement be?
What data is important for collection and reporting, and what is the cost to collect and present the data in a customized format?
Were legacy systems built assuming little or no outside connectivity with other applications?
What are the real-time data requirements of different departments? A business application requiring online ordering over an enterprise website may have no-compromise, real-time data requirements, whereas an internal application with a limited number of users may not be so constrained by performance issues.
Does the integration involve just data or also business logic? Is the business logic and/or the data bi-directional? Some system integrations may involve exposing inventory data to a web application for the customer, offering only viewing capabilities; yet others may be fully transactional. You may benefit from our process integration consulting services.
What is the level of risk in the integration initiative? An internal application with a small set of users may represent much less risk than would a compliance-related application, with legal ramifications, intersecting across a broad band of enterprise users.

However complex the integration puzzle may be, Ossia Systems, through our systems integration and IT services, knows how to put the pieces together to unify and strengthen your enterprise while giving it the flexibility and scalability to confidently meet tomorrow's challenges.

Systems Integration Empowers Secure Information Sharing

In the following example of an integrated distributed-computing enterprise, information is shared between applications and databases in a secure manner. In addition, data and transactions from third parties are integrated. The heterogeneity of the computing environment is not an issue because the use of web services enables custom application development across disparate platforms. In this example, the data stores of individual divisions or operating units have been secured and linked together as appropriate. Furthermore, the enterprise now benefits from (1) more easily managed applications, which can be universally accessed by a host of common users, and (2) web services, which allow the enterprise to seamlessly share data with both inside and outside sources as well as consume data from outside sources. Desktop applications would still be a part of this environment, but they would integrate more fully with the enterprise where possible. This robust, proactive enterprise can rapidly share information and provides an unprecedented level of efficiency.