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Maturity comes with age and experience. This adage is as true for a business as it is for an individual. Anyone can look back to an instance where they were learning a new skill and wish they could have known what they know now. Hopefully most of us can similarly think of something we DIDN’T do because we learned from someone else’s experience.
Years of technological evolution and innovation without consideration for simplified approaches have left many businesses dependent on an abundance of complex enterprise IT architecture. Legacy systems, siloed data, and patchwork solutions to pressing problems have reduced agility and hampered companies’ ability to rapidly respond to market changes.
But there is a better way.
It is possible to simplify your complex architecture with the aid of modern tools like IT system integration.
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The purpose of IT is to enable revenue generation or product delivery processes, so aligning IT with business goals is critical. But too often, IT departments face criticism for failing to meet organizational expectations around deadlines, functionality, performance, or security due to a backlog of work.
The business often sees only the tip of the iceberg of what system architects and developers have created over time as they responded to evolving requirements and expectations. The IT team has, over years, implemented new systems and technologies to meet changing needs – and the result is an immense technical legacy that requires specialized professionals to maintain.
And that’s when the trouble starts.
The complexity of their enterprise IT architecture and the rapid evolution of technology leave organizations unable to keep up. Declining revenue drives technology budget cuts, and companies are trapped by their own legacy systems, unable to embrace new solutions like cloud, IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence needed to compete in a digital-first world.
Overgrown IT architecture must be cut back before you can develop a strategy to streamline your systems and embrace new technology. Before you start pruning, consider the following:
Your problems (and your systems) might be complex. But the solutions can and should be simple and straightforward. Before you can simplify the complexities in your IT architecture strategy, you must identify and isolate your challenges.
For years, integrating data and systems required a range of technologies, protocols, and parts. Integration was a complex problem, and companies attempting it needed highly specialized experts and a lot of time to commit to the extensive process.
Connecting just two systems called for a myriad of tools, including service buses, API gateways, and tools for execution, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Each gear in the machine depended on coordination between many players:
In short, it was a long and complicated process that went far beyond taking data from one place and moving it to another. But identifying and isolating difficulties allows you to remove roadblocks.
By leveraging an enterprise IT architecture that lets you isolate complexities, you can build a platform that is easy and intuitive to use. Technology should be an enabler, not an obstacle. And today more than ever, IT teams have the power to cut back overgrown complex legacy systems to make operations simpler, more agile, and more efficient.
Recent data from the 2022 State of Enterprise Integration Report indicates only 7% of companies have successfully completed the task of pruning back legacy IT systems and implementing an integration solution. While the vast majority of respondents said their organization would benefit from integration, execution remains low. The reasons offered are varied:
Sound familiar? All of these concerns are side effects of a lack of alignment between purpose and function – a side effect of the patchwork solutions many organizations have relied on to address changing demands and technology.
At Digibee, we understand the challenges companies face when they’re dependent on legacy infrastructure. Our eiPaaS gives you the flexibility and agility you need to compete in today’s digital-first business world.
Our solution comes with comprehensive support and without lengthy commitments or large upfront investments. Plus, our innovative model can significantly reduce the time it takes to develop and implement integrations, so you can realize the benefits that much faster.
To learn more about how we can help you simplify complex enterprise IT architecture, request a demo today so we can discuss your needs.
Digibee has spent the past few years helping organizations connect the old with the new, allowing them to tap into important business innovations such as cloud migration, automation, and optimized customer experiences.
The technological solutions of the past were built with the idea that they should last a lifetime. Investments in a new system or technological architecture were expected to offer returns for years to come.
But the world changes – and quickly. The idea of having a near-permanent and definitive technology is a pipe dream. Companies that bought into that idea are now dependent on monolithic, complex and coupled architectures where simply changing one piece can bring the whole system crashing down. Legacy system modernization is quickly becoming a top priority for many organizations.
Moving data and information through and between these siloed systems is challenging and time-consuming. Businesses that rely on these aging solutions are suddenly at a sharp disadvantage compared to competitors with more flexible infrastructure. They are victims of technological lock-in.
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There are several driving factors behind technological lock-in.
The unwillingness – or inability – to embrace new technologies can directly and negatively impact an organization’s ability to compete in a changing marketplace. Victims of technological lock-in find themselves forced to choose between legacy system modernization approaches and rapidly spiraling technological debt as they struggle to keep pace with more agile competitors.
Some companies looking to avoid the perils of technological lock-in are resisting the idea of committing to any one cloud provider. But to build out a fully cloud-agnostic solution, they end up dependent on a series of solutions that ultimately cause internal lock-in and increase costs astronomically.
A future move to a different solution would mean rewriting features dependent on current cloud selections – but not choosing a solution could mean overhauling those capabilities immediately. Companies are forced to choose between immediate vendor lock-in or the potential of additional work, delays and security risks.
The rise of more flexible architectures and microservices highlights a change in the mindset of companies – and this paradigm shift can free enterprises from the limitations of technological lock-in.
The secret is not to choose between business-critical (but outdated) systems and shiny new solutions, but to embrace legacy system modernization using flexible architecture solutions that don’t require the destruction of older solutions. The ability to deploy new applications alongside legacy systems means lock-in is no longer an issue, and companies can extend and leverage investments already made in legacy systems. The only choice decision-makers are faced with is which tool provides the best value.
For this approach to succeed, your technological architecture must have the ability to guarantee that core data, vital to your daily operations, is transported without barrier or damage to its integrity between different environments. And in this scenario, choosing a specialized platform built specifically for this purpose will be cheaper and faster than committing resources to develop internal solutions.
Companies must leave behind the fear of falling into technological lock-in and prioritize the use of the best available solutions that will meet their needs at that moment. Building a platform that cannot communicate with other services hurts businesses’ ability to compete and leads to loss of market share.
The process of integrating business-critical legacy systems with new technological solutions is not without challenges and risk. Choosing and implementing an integration solution can:
Many integration solutions require huge investments in time and resources to succeed – both during implementation and ongoing use and maintenance. And 98% of enterprises report needing to rebuild key integrations in the past year.
An enterprise integration platform-as-a-service (or iPaaS), however, can help minimize risk, costs, and implementation time. Because connections can be built on top of old architecture without replacing legacy connections until testing is complete, an iPaaS can dramatically shorten integration project timelines and reduce the risk associated with legacy system modernization.
Forrester Research reports that Digibee’s iPaaS helps enterprises increase developer efficiency, limit costs and accelerate time to market, offering a 232% return on investment and a payback period of under six months. Let us make your legacy systems migration efforts easy, pain-free, and faster than other integration solutions.
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It’s been two years since SAP announced it would sunset support for its on-premise ERP. There are five years until the current deadline. In business terms, five years seems like a comfortable window for change – in the technology world, five years is practically an eternity. With what seems like all the time in the world to migrate, is starting your SAP S/4HANA transition really that urgent?
The short answer: Yes.
The longer answer: Seriously, what are you waiting for? There are several reasons not to put off an SAP S/4HANA migration, no matter how daunting it may seem.
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Any unanticipated shift to a new technological system is a challenge. But your ERP isn’t just any old system. It’s a core system with many dependencies. You’ll need to examine the relationship between SAP and each solution or tool it interacts with before you can make the move.
Data migration is a crucial factor to consider when evaluating your SAP S/4HANA integration options. Overlooking a dependency before your migration begins can result in data loss and significant disruptions to your operations. Starting your S/4HANA transition now ensures you have as much time as possible to examine and address dependencies in your system.
Your SAP modernization efforts may well be your organization’s first real foray into the world of cloud, and preparing for the worst (while hoping for the best) is the smart move.
Even if your company has already embraced cloud-based solutions for other aspects of your business, it’s never wise to assume that everything will go exactly as planned. Something as simple as a lack of stakeholder alignment on the goals and priorities for your SAP S/4HANA transition can derail the entire process. The responsible move is to begin planning for the shift while the old system is still there as a reliable backup.
It’s easy to think that your SAP S/4HANA transition is a massive evil task you’re being forced to undertake against your will. But migration can serve as a catalyst for your digital transformation journey and transform your ERP into a more strategic partner for other lines of business.
It can:
Do you really want to delay that?
Recognizing the benefits of moving forward now with your SAP S/4HANA migration doesn’t mean that all the challenges associated with doing so will simply vanish into thin air. Still, there are ways to simplify the process.
Digibee’s low-code iPaaS can help simplify and accelerate your S/4HANA transition. We empower you to implement integrations 40% faster to decrease costs, reduce disruptions, reduce technical debt, and completely eliminate downtime. We’ve helped many organizations develop an SAP ECC to S/4HANA roadmap that works for them, and we’re proud to be a featured vendor in the SAP Store.
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Shifting from on-premises to a cloud environment delivers significant efficiencies for your financial services organization, allowing you to tap into important innovations and improvements such as automation, process support, stronger security, and the elimination of aging datacenters.
Yet, according to a recent McKinsey survey, cloud adoption in the financial services sector remains at a very early stage, with only 13% of organizations having half or more of their IT footprint in the cloud.
Fortunately, the industry isn’t letting the grass grow under its feet, with 54% of respondents expecting to shift at least half their workloads to the public cloud over the next five years.
But getting to the cloud isn’t always easy. This article will help you mitigate–and even avoid–many of the challenges your financial services organization may encounter, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruptions to the business.
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Cloud environment performance is key to maintaining continuity and minimizing disruptions such as IT downtime that impact the business. Cloud performance issues are often due to availability, network latency, or application processing delays.
Before your migration process begins, it’s essential to:
Make migration decisions based on data flows or business domains – not on which systems provide or receive data. Select technology that delivers the flexibility to migrate what needs migrating and keep other systems in place.
Decoupling data streams in completely isolated containers allows for both vertical and horizontal tuning. This model lets you optimize traffic between points, removing the performance constraints typically associated with cloud migration and putting the focus of analysis on endpoint capacity.
Cloud costs are climbing rapidly for many financial services organizations, with banks estimated to waste as much as 35% of cloud spending on inefficient activities. It’s vital to carefully manage costs, factoring in the duration and complexity of your transition to ensure a solid return on your investment.
There are a few ways to control the price of a shift to the cloud:
A platform-as-a-service model eliminates the need for upfront infrastructure investments and allows costs to be adjusted to match project scope without compromising the agility or scalability of your solution.
And while traditional cloud vendor tools focus solely on the transition, a cloud-based enterprise integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) can simplify your cloud migration process while also laying the groundwork for architecture modernization to support future efficiencies.
Financial services organizations face much greater scrutiny and regulatory oversight than many other sectors. The industry requires protocols for controls, processes, and documentation that meet strict guidelines.
Provisioning, infrastructure delivery, and operations are major challenges associated with cloud computing and the complexity involved in properly implementing, using, controlling, and maintaining IT assets.
Traditional governance models must be adapted to new environments to enhance security, manage risk, and avoid problems such as:
The problem of shadow IT and the unnecessary use of resources reduces operational efficiency and security while driving up costs. Robust cloud operations management helps overcome some cloud migration challenges. Service level agreements define expected performance levels, but continual monitoring is necessary to ensure SLAs are upheld as infrastructure components change.
Processes and checks must be implemented in alignment with industry and corporate standards before code is deployed to production, and security requirements and access controls must be in place.
Observability enables administrators to gather internal and external data on networked resources to monitor and understand their behavior, investigate anomalies, and improve performance and uptime.
But this can be challenging in a cloud environment, especially given the massive volume of data and components in cloud architecture. In fact, 75% of CISOs within financial services organizations say vulnerability management has become more difficult as the need to accelerate digital transformation has increased.
Make sure the observability tools you select support:
According to VMWare, in the first half of 2020, we saw an increase of 238% in cyberattacks targeting financial institutions. This frightening statistic emphasizes the need to ensure controls and practices that are in place for on-premises systems are adequate–or are replaced–to meet the requirements of cloud-based systems. Failure to support this transition could introduce new risks to your operation:
Mission-critical resources must be deployed in logically isolated areas, and dedicated WAN links and enterprise-defined static routing configurations used to customize access to devices, networks, gateways, and public IP addresses.
Secure all distributed cloud applications and automatically update WAF rules when there is a measurable change in traffic. Be sure to apply and enforce all financial services security policies and processes consistently.
Employ encryption at every level of data transport, and deploy software that detects, identifies, and remediates threats in real-time.
Digibee’s unique cloud native enterprise iPaaS model helps minimize the risks of these common cloud migration challenges that disrupt migration and architecture modernization processes, ensuring that your digital transformation is smooth and seamless. Our solution isn’t just about moving your data and processes to the cloud. Digibee helps future-proof your financial services operation so you’re ready for anything – including competing in a digital-first world.
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The idea of system and data integration has reached an inflection point. Most companies have acknowledged the critical role embracing a modern integrated architecture plays in their plans for digital transformation. But relatively few have successfully acted on that understanding.
Data in the State of Enterprise Integration Report suggests that 71% of enterprises are actively planning to adopt, supplement, or replace their integration technology. The Gartner Integration Maturity Model notes that many IT departments are still only in the very early stages of developing integration competency – if they’ve started at all.
Adopting the right iPaaS early could give enterprises a technological edge over their competitors. So how do organizations accelerate integration to align their progress with its importance?
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The Gartner maturity assessment suggests that approximately 30% of organizations are only getting started with integration, with a significant percentage of those at a point where they have not recognized the value of a comprehensive integration strategy.
Why bother with integration? Does it really matter? The short answer: Yes, it really does.
Poor integrations – or a lack of integration altogether – has a range of measurable, negative impacts on business. We gathered data from more than 1,000 CIOs and system architects, and the most commonly cited effects of a lack of integration included:
All these responses support the understanding that data integration issues are business issues that will affect growth, profitability, and long-term success.
The Gartner Integration Maturity Model breaks down companies’ progress toward implementing comprehensive integration strategies into five stages – and puts those five stages into three overarching phases.
The “getting started” phase in Gartner’s maturity assessment includes two of its five stages:
Ad Hoc
Enlightened
State of Enterprise Integration Report: 71% of enterprises are embracing integration.
Gartner estimates around 60% of businesses are in the phase, which includes two more stages:
Centralized
State of Enterprise Integration Report: 74% of IT professionals in manufacturing report needing integration to address as much as 60% of their IT backlog.
Collaborative
At this final stage, integration is embedded in the organization’s digital culture, and there is an understanding that integration must be a pervasive competency that includes both internal and external partners. The ISET facilitates self-service integration – supporting business users who may occasionally need to perform integration tasks in the completion of their duties.
State of Enterprise Integration Report: 79% of enterprise IT professionals say they have impactful and significantly more down time than expected.
The findings in Gartner’s maturity assessment and the data in the State of Enterprise Integration report are aligned on the importance of an organization-wide integration strategy – and the fact that many businesses are far from implementation. So how can organizations accelerate integration to reach the levels needed to respond to rising demand?
Remember, a lack of effective integration strategy can cost your business in a variety of tangible ways. Although the road to implementing a strategy can seem challenging, accelerated integration can be achieved if you approach it carefully and methodically.
Digibee’s unique enterprise iPaaS can help your organization accelerate digital transformations and increase your organization’s IT maturity – and we can make it happen faster than any other integration solution.
To learn more about accelerating integration and how to determine what stage your business is at, request a demo today.
Enterprises are adopting digital-first strategies to help increase operational efficiency and meet changing customer expectations. But companies reliant on legacy systems and siloed data are at a disadvantage compared to their digital native competitors and must integrate existing systems and data with modern tools.
Many business leaders recognize the urgency to modernize their infrastructure, but most face significant challenges when it comes to developing an effective enterprise integration strategy.
Almost all – 93% – of enterprise IT professionals acknowledge the value of integration, with 57% saying integration strategy is vital to the success of their business. And yet implementation remains low. Worse still, organizations that integrate without an effective strategy in place report a range of negative impacts:
So what’s going wrong? Why is progress on integration roadmaps so slow?
One problem is that many organizations are focusing on integration technology first and failing to consider the other components of an effective integration strategy. While choosing the right solution to support your enterprise integration framework is important, there are other considerations that must come first.
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Before you choose which integration solution is right for your organization, you have to define what you hope to achieve and identify any gaps in your integration capabilities.
The majority of enterprise IT experts agree that integration is important, but their reasons vary considerably:
Once you’ve identified the reasons driving your enterprise integration project, make a list of any factors that could delay or derail implementation. Is the cost of integration a major concern? Are you worried about disruptions to daily operations during the transition? Do you have compliance standards that need to be maintained during your integration journey? Is the potential complexity of the project holding you back?
As we collected data on the state of enterprise integration in 2022, we uncovered a distinct disparity between different stakeholders when we asked who the key players in integration strategy were:
That gap in perspective is a problem. If two groups with competing priorities and goals each think they’re the principal player in developing an integration strategy, the odds of alignment between objectives and challenges are pretty low.
Forming an enterprise integration strategy team can help ensure that all perspectives are heard and considered as you build an integration roadmap. Make sure you include input from:
Involving players at all organizational levels can help you develop a strategy that achieves everyone’s goals – and avoid dealing with a patchwork of shadow IT solutions.
After you’ve completed these two steps, you’re ready for the final component of your enterprise integration strategy – choosing the right solution. Where other companies have skipped straight to this step, the time and effort you’ve invested in getting to this point will reduce your risk of experiencing common integration pitfalls.
Selecting the right solution will be much easier now that your collaborative team has already defined what you’re trying to achieve and what’s standing in your way. You should have alignment on factors like:
At Digibee, we understand that business doesn’t stop while you make changes to your systems and processes. Our innovative iPaaS ensures your organization has the flexibility and agility you need to compete in a digital-first world without compromising the high level of service your customers have come to expect.
Digibee’s unique business model means you can try our solution without a lengthy commitment or hefty upfront investment. And even better – we can shorten the time it takes to implement your integration strategy from months to weeks.
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Organizations around the world have built their businesses on SAP technology, an investment that has spanned many years. For those enterprises that started their ERP journey with SAP R/3 in 1992, the relationship is decades-long.
As a business leader, you’re responsible for the health and success of the company. Accountable to the board, investors, customers, and employees, you must ensure the organization responds with agility to changes in the market.
In the recent Digibee Enterprise Integration Report, one of the data points we uncovered was particularly surprising.
When asked about downtime encountered during their integration project, 79% reported system downtime that was significant, impactful, and more than expected. This is a 27% increase over 2022.
Based on the survey results and interactions with our customers, it’s clear the majority of enterprises embarking on an integration project simply presume downtime will occur (and likely a lot of it). Rather than the exception, downtime has become the rule with many technology leaders factoring it into their integration strategies.
But it doesn’t have to be like this.
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We all pay a price for downtime and it’s only going up. In 2014, Gartner research indicated that the average cost of downtime was $5,600 per minute, for an hourly average of over $300K.
In 2022, ITIC research shows the cost has increased significantly for 90% of SME and large enterprises, with 44% reporting that a single hour of downtime could potentially cost over $1M. A staggering hit to the bottom line.
While security is at the top of the ITIC research list in terms of issues impacting downtime, integration/interoperability ranks in the top ten, along with human error, software bugs/flaws, complexity in configuring new apps, and understaffed/overworked IT departments. All of these are likely enterprise integration challenges you may encounter during your project.
Typically, the blame for downtime is attributed to the integration technology. However, based on our experience, this outcome is more often due to poor planning or a lack of planning overall. While the integration strategy you create is critical to the strength of your plan and its execution, the wrong strategy will only compound the downtime your business encounters.
We see this a lot with big bang enterprise integration strategies. This model requires that you integrate all business modules at once. On paper this seems like an efficient and faster method to achieve enterprise integration, but in real-life it is extremely time-consuming and inefficient.
With a big bang strategy, critical failures increase since testing occurs at the end of the project once all integrations are complete—versus incrementally throughout the project. Tracing individual failures is also more complicated and time-consuming, forcing developers to go back and test each integration point.
Similar to a string of holiday lights, when one bulb fails, they all fail. The system can’t be restored until the fault is located.
Of course, a zero downtime deployment is rarely possible as we all encounter some integration problems during these projects. But with an effective integration strategy and the right technology, the risk of downtime and interruptions to the business are minimized.
Unlike big bang strategies that force us to rework the majority of existing integrations due to downstream dependencies, iPaaS technology enables a more deliberate, phased approach. Instead of investing significant manpower and resources out of the gate, iPaaS delivers a thoughtful and linear model that expedites outcomes while saving time and money.
“Are you building around the tool or is the tool building around your business?”
Based on our work with enterprises across industries, here are three constructive steps that will help minimize business downtime during your integration project:
1. Select the right technology
Select a solution that allows you to build enterprise integrations the way you want them to be built. Ask yourself: are you building around the tool or is the tool building around your business? The technology you select must meet you where you’re at today, not the other way around. Adjusting your business model to accommodate your integration platform will almost always lead to unnecessary downtime.
2. Focus on the subset of connections
Abstract out the different connections across your entire integration strategy, then focus on the essential piece you want to migrate. Maintain all other systems, allowing them to coexist as usual by decoupling architecture from data flows. Contemporary iPaaS technology allows you to apply this metered approach for greater flexibility and uptime.
3. Minimize rework
Rework and downtime are inextricably linked. But while some rework is required for your integration project, it’s certainly not at the scale of a big bang strategy where all existing integrations must be touched. An iPaaS solution allows you to integrate in stages versus all at once. Smaller teams are able to perform the work at a faster cadence for an agile and cost-effective project.
The Digibee iPaaS provides additional measures to help our customers avoid downtime and other enterprise integration issues.
For example, the platform runs legacy and modern systems in tandem during implementation for always-on reliability. While your company carries on business as usual, system architects and developers are building, running, monitoring, and securing your new integration infrastructure.
The formal switch-over doesn’t occur until all connections are tested and validated. Best of all, this model is repeatable, carried out each time a new integration is enabled.
You already face an uphill battle quantifying the value of an intangible such as enterprise integration to secure funding and support for the project. Diminishing promised value due to business downtime and other avoidable outcomes only weakens your position.
If you are in the midst of planning an integration strategy for your organization, you’re not alone. Read the Digibee Enterprise Integration Report to learn how 1,000+ of your peers are preparing for their digital transformation. The report examines common pitfalls, best practices, and key takeaways to help inform your business case.
The success of any IT project that involves the migration from established, foundational technology to contemporary, cloud-based technology, is often determined by how well you integrate the old with the new.
Case in point is the impending SAP S/4HANA migration, which for many organizations will be the largest IT project they’ve undertaken in years (if not decades). This mammoth task requires enterprise integrations across multiple systems and data stores in support of a more agile, resilient, and competitive business.
Along with a solid project integration strategy to support your SAP S/4HANA migration, success is also defined based on the time and resources consumed, as well as any downtime to the business. But even with the best project strategy, achieving your desired outcomes is difficult (if not impossible) if your internal stakeholders are not aligned on the objectives of the project.
For example, your CIO may expect that your impending SAP S/4HANA migration will immediately improve data security, whereas your CFO may expect an overall reduction in operational costs. Perhaps your Sales leader expects a faster time to market for new offerings, while your IT team is aiming for business process optimization and improved system reliability.
While each of these objectives is achievable, delivering all of them on day one is not. Aligning the priorities and expectations of internal teams is a critical factor in the success of your SAP S/4HANA migration strategy.
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An international study about SAP S/4HANA transformation by LeanIX bears this out, with 66% of SAP users describing the alignment of teams (business, project, IT) as the biggest hurdle they face in migrating to SAP S/4HANA.
This lack of alignment impacts all aspects of your migration strategy, including enterprise integration and how internal teams prioritize these critical connections.
The Digibee Enterprise Integration Report sums up an in-depth survey we conducted of business and technology leaders. For the report, we solicited input from respondents who had already implemented an enterprise-level integration initiative of a scale similar to the S/4HANA migration. We asked these leaders to identify three aspects of the project most likely to impact budget and spend.
Top of the list was competing priorities, clearly reflecting a lack of alignment in how these important connections are ranked by internal teams:
*This blog post, originally published in October 2022, was updated above to reflect data from the 2023 State of Enterprise Integration Report published in April, 2023.
While the variety of desired use cases reflects the broad scope of enterprise integration in supporting your S/4HANA migration, lack of clarity in prioritizing the work results in conflict amongst stakeholders, delaying implementation and increasing costs as everyone marches to the beat of their own drummer.
System downtime and resourcing were the other aspects leadership called out as most impactful to project budget and spend.
These steps will guide you in creating an effective integration strategy that will help drive alignment amongst your internal teams, while ensuring the success of your S/4HANA migration strategy.
Digibee works with organizations globally, supporting SAP S/4HANA migrations with flexible and fast integration strategies.
With our low code integration model, Digibee customers implement integrations 40% faster, decreasing operating costs with fewer incidents, faster recovery times, and zero downtime. These efficiencies help free up resources to focus on the higher priority S/4HANA migration work.
Visit our SAP S/4HANA integration page to learn more or request a demo with our team to discuss your upcoming migration plan.
Integration is a critical first step in the digital transformation process. For organizations dependent on legacy infrastructure and siloed data, it’s no longer a “nice to have” – it’s a fundamental necessity. But who really owns enterprise integration management? Who are the key integration stakeholders?
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