Category: Enterprise Integration Solutions

Improving and Enabling Manufacturing Efficiency through Integration

The manufacturing sector has long been a leader in innovation. The industrial revolution over a century ago centered on the adoption of mechanical advances to produce items at speeds and volumes that would have been previously unimaginable. 

Henry Ford’s concept of the assembly line in the 1910’s, Toyota’s Kanban methodology introduced in the 1940’s and Kaizen in the 1980’s, and Motorola’s development of Six Sigma in the 1990’s are additional revolutionary principles established by manufacturing, then adopted by many other industries. 

In 2023, manufacturing challenges center upon computer integrated manufacturing and data proliferation. 

The Endless End of Life Cycle with MuleSoft

Sometimes it’s not easy being a MuleSoft customer. While we’ve never been there, plenty of our customers have. 

The licensing model is expensive, with support and maintenance also taking big bites from the bottom line. Training (or hiring) people to work with the technology is another kick in the pants, with special certifications and courses chewing up IT budgets and sidelining the only people able to make MuleSoft work. According to our annual survey, maintenance and training are top of the list for non-iPaaS integration budgets, eating up almost 40% of the spend. So we’re not talking peanuts.

The technology, back in its heyday, was pretty amazing, delivering integration capabilities for SaaS, on-premises software, legacy systems, and other platforms. But technology from the early 2000s is not sufficient for organizations that need meaningful change. Today, enterprise integration is an enabler of innovation and agility. If it’s constraining the business, then it’s not doing its job.


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Creating a Seamless Customer Experience in Ecommerce Environments

There are countless articles on how to build a meaningful customer experience strategy, whether specifically in ecommerce or in any type of selling environment. And while we all strive to continuously, proactively add technologies and process improvements designed to enhance the experience of our customers, sometimes a cautionary tale – learning what not to do – can be particularly insightful.  

Everyone has been in the role of consumer, so it’s not a stretch to put yourself in your customers’ shoes. What excites you? What entices you to buy? What prompts you to leave a 1-star review or quit on a sale before it’s final? Regardless of what’s being sold – from souvenir t-shirts to private jets – the desired experience is essentially the same. In this blog, we share a true narrative customer experience gone wrong, and tips on how to avoid this sort of scenario.

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How Low-Code Integration is Changing the Lives of Software Developers

Once considered an impediment to software development, low-code was viewed as a rigid, templated coding style that hindered creativity. 

Today, many software engineers and developers view low-code as a liberator…almost the AI of software development, automating mundane steps while freeing up human capital to focus on higher value work.

The “Why” Behind Enterprise Integration in Retail

The Digibee 2023 State of Enterprise Integration survey, was carried out earlier this year, compiling input and opinions from one thousand CTOs, CIOs, system architects, and web developers in North America. 

The survey data provides compelling insights to the state of integration across multiple industries. In this blog post we explore some of the findings specific to Retail, one of three industry sub-reports we published.

Top Findings: Digibee’s 2023 State of Enterprise Integration Report – Implementation Time

In 2023, Digibee’s conducted its second annual annual State of Enterprise Integration survey, reaching out to one thousand CTOs, CIOs, system architects, and web developers in North America.

In this blog post series, we examine one of the top findings in the report, as ranked by your peers. Implementation time stood out as one of the biggest challenges when embarking on an IT digital transformation strategy. Many survey respondents said while their goal was accelerating digital transformation, integration implementation took much longer and was more complicated than expected.

Top Findings: Digibee’s 2023 State of Enterprise Integration Report – Budget & Spend

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The 2023 data is in, and Digibee’s second annual annual State of Enterprise Integration survey, is out! We reached out to more than a thousand enterprise IT professionals – from web developers and system architects to CTOs and CIOs – across North America to understand today’s integration trends, challenges, and opportunities.

Now we’re diving into some of the key findings with a series of blog posts – this one focuses on IT budgets and the cost of integration.

The Pros and Cons of APIs and How Enterprise iPaaS Helps

The path to digital transformation is never a smooth one, with most enterprises facing some serious house cleaning before they achieve their desired future state. Typically, we focus our efforts on the legacy systems and non-cloud-native applications holding us back. Rarely do we place APIs in this category.

Long the savior of IT teams around the world, APIs have helped us simplify integrations, support communication between systems, and liberate applications from siloed, monolithic architecture.  While impressive (and imperative) capabilities for the enterprise, APIs bring their own legacy challenges to the table.

To ensure the success of your enterprise integration strategy, the modernization of APIs must be a part of the plan.

Top Findings: Digibee’s 2023 State of Enterprise Integration Report – Migrating to the Cloud

In 2023, Digibee conducted our second annual State of Enterprise Integration survey, reaching out to one thousand CTOs, CIOs, system architects, and web developers in North America. 

In this series, we examine the top findings uncovered in the report, including the number one objective of organizations when implementing enterprise integration: cloud migration

Cloud Migration Checklist: Transition to the Cloud in 6 Simple Steps

Cloud migration is becoming more and more common – and increasingly complex. While most organizations have moved at least some of their digital assets to the cloud, cloud migration strategies remain prone to disruptions and delays.

But failure is not inevitable. A carefully developed cloud migration roadmap can help you remove roadblocks and avoid common pitfalls. Follow this simple cloud migration checklist to ensure you have everything you need in place for a smooth transition.