Integration
Over the last ten years, the advent of mobile computing and ‘always on’ client expectation has forced IT departments to begin integrating many disparate systems into one central point of access. The power of emerging technologies often requires you to overcome complex systems integration challenges, both within your own organization’s walls, and with your external partners, suppliers, and clients.
SCAD Makes Integration Easy
Cloud
Mobile
Social Networking
Big Data
The Need To Integrate
Cloud
Widespread adoption of cloud hosted solutions has created a need for IT departments to rethink their system typologies with integration being the largest challenge.
Mobile
As the end user becomes more and more mobile, their is greater and greater and pressure on the IT infrastructure to provide real time access to the client data via a single interface.
Big Data
More than just a buzz word, big data is a concept that has had more of an empowering effect on corporations then virtually any other technological advance since the PC itself. To take advantage though, all systems need to be completely and efficiently integrated to create a central data point.
Having all available information at only one location saves on computer storage space (and costs). Additionally the multiple upkeep of data, when these are newly created, changed or deleted is avoided. This reduces the proneness to errors and leads to a higher data consistency.
At any time every process participant can see which part of the process is currently being worked on or which activities are currently being conducted. Interdependencies are also a lot more transparent so that the possible consequences of measures can be better estimated.
An integrated solution allows faster statements to current numbers and developments. For example all preparation activities necessary to make the data comparable between systems (for example when using different material numbers) are omitted. It is also no longer necessary to elaborately „glue together“ an analysis through various applications. Critical processes can therefore be identified far earlier and necessary counter measures can be taken.
In the case of a software update in a heterogeneous IT landscape it must always be checked whether it can lead to conflicts with other systems in use. Possibly interfaces have to be newly configured and implemented. Also updates naturally happen quite often. This too repeatedly ties up resources which are then not available for the usual operations.
Social Networking
Social networking has empowered the end user and created a culture of ‘instant communication’. Social networks are fast becoming more and more integrated into content delivery and mobile applications.