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Do you have any of these Integration Symptoms or Pitfalls?
Every organisation and its key stakeholders do their best when conceptualising their integration requirements for a critical business process. Even when they have best-of-breed off-the-shelf integration platforms and methods, these integration projects within enterprises are still high-risk exercises that require appropriate levels of skill and governance.
And once the project commences and the detailed design and implementation planning for the newly integrated processes are starting to visualise but yet to materialise, it doesn’t take long before the first wheels-off appears, and the cracks in the solution landscape start turning into an abyss. These are characterised by
Broken and missing data that require significant remediation in connecting systems
Data that still requires manual load, extensive validation, and error recycling
Additional recruitment of consultants and auditors to help fill the gaps
Workflows and business rules between systems are not aligned; hence low interoperability and additional changes to these connecting systems
Developers are only familiar with simple point-to-point integrations, not complex enterprise-level system-of-system approaches
The promised ‘low-code’ capabilities of the integration platform won’t handle an enterprise level of solution complexity; hence additional specialists become necessary
The design only includes passive error reporting and data governance without any actionable error recycling capability across multiple systems
Technical debt increases due to ‘system version lock-in’, where it becomes challenging to singularly update a connecting system’s version or corrective capability
Filling minor gaps in the solution with band-aid approaches that further increase technical debt and long-term restrictions
Corrective action on adjoining systems becomes a considerable anchor for IT support, and they become incapable of providing capacity for changing business dynamics
The resultant integrated solution transitions to sub-par and shall not meet expected outcomes.
The overall result is that these symptoms lead to approximately a 3 -5 times blow-out in the project schedule and a 5 to 10 times blow-out in project costs, which subsequently provides the means for complete project failures, shut-downs, damaged reputations, and impacted business opportunities.
To see how Diriger provides answers to the above, read our Case Study.