Consulting services related to integration

A long time ago, managers became aware of the role that automation of key business processes plays in improvement of the enterprise efficiency in long ago. However, most enterprises implement information technologies stage by stage. This results in so called patchwork automation, when different information systems function within one enterprise. Fragmentation of technological solutions becomes the factor that limits business efficiency.

The IBS Integration Solutions Department offers a solution that allows for unification of all corporate business processes and assurance of joint functioning of applications which are different in nature, not connected at the technological level, but which operate in the single application information environment. The solution is corporate application integration (Enterprise Application Integration, EAI). The applications can exchange data to one another due to integration.

Implementation of application integration is most efficient in the following cases:

• Patchwork automation of enterprise business processes
• Distributed geographical organization of the enterprise
• Diversification of the enterprise's business
• Restructuring or reorganizing of the enterprise
• Existence of the partner relations, that require intensive information action (intercorporate integration), between enterprises

Increase of existing information systems efficiency is achieved by integrating the applications which are not connected at the technological level, that operate within the same business process. In so doing, no partial or complete replacement of the information solutions used by the company is required. In addition to that, a technological base for implementation of new systems, that allows for optimization of costs of their integration into the existing infrastructure, is formed. At the same time, integration of applications enables solving a cluster of the business tasks connected with the company development and changes of the company structure.

Consulting services for integration with SAP systems

Consulting services for integration with SAP systems cover integration of SAP systems with various external systems that implement additional functionalities and/or provide an alternative user interface.

In case of integration of a SAP system with external systems, there is a possibility of integration at the business process level, when a business process starts in one system and completes in another. In so doing, distributed business processes can be built.

An example of integration of a SAP system with external systems could be as follows. It is the situation, when the material purchase order formed in some external system comes into SAP R/3 for further processing.

If an alternative user interface is created, then preliminary validation, agreement and approval of data are possible prior to loading them into the SAP system. If a web-interface is implemented, then remote work via the Internet is possible. As different users could use the same account in this case, one achieves considerable saving of user license costs.

Main advantages of integration with SAP systems:

• Existing information system use efficiency improvement and new information system implementation costs minimization
• Saving of R/3 user license costs, as a number of users may use one account
• Increase of work efficiency due to possibility of remote work via the Internet by using a web-interface
• Increase of interaction efficiency in dealing with suppliers, consumers, and partners due to automation of document flow and transfer of the document flow into electronic form.

The table below shows mix of software products that are necessary when creating a solution in the framework of SAP system integration:

Contacts

IBS Integration Solutions Department

Contact person: Dmitry Zretskiy (Dzaretskiy@ibs.ru)

Phone: +7 (095) 967-8080

Fax: +7 (095) 967-8081