Application Integration - A Key Component of your Digital Transformation
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The document discusses application integration as a crucial aspect of digital transformation, highlighting its efforts to automate data exchange between various systems across industries like government and retail. It emphasizes the challenges faced by organizations in connecting systems, the integration process, and the benefits of seamless data connections such as improved data integrity and reduced mundane tasks. Additionally, it outlines various integration patterns including point-to-point and enterprise service bus, aiming to unify incompatible systems for better workflow and decision-making capabilities.
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How to integrate your systems
The question asked most often by our customers and
partners is “How do we connect [System A] with
[System B]?”
Application Integration is the automation of often
manual processes that pass data between
applications, departments, and organizations. The
hard part of this process is defining the human
interactions with the information that is exchanged.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/applicationintegration-akeycomponentofyourdigitaltransformation-220912172646-d2ea55cf/85/Application-Integration-A-Key-Component-of-your-Digital-Transformation-5-320.jpg)
Application Integration - A Key Component of your Digital Transformation
- 1. APPLICATION INTEGRATION: A key component of your digital transformation
- 2. FME User Conference 20 22 ▪ No-code integrations for key business applications ▪ Established 12 years ago ▪ Design to resolve data deficiencies ▪ Industries we’ve worked in include government, aviation, retail, manufacturing, and real property
- 3. FME User Conference 20 22 Spatial DNA, CEO & Founder ▪ Active in the GIS technology space for 25 years ▪ Recognized expert in application and data integration ▪ BSc in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary ▪ Active member of the Entrepreneur Organization – a group dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs and growing the entrepreneurial spirit globally Todd Lewis
- 4. 20 22 FME User Conference How to integrate your systems 01 02 03 04 05 The challenge with implementing new software Benefits of integrating your systems The integration process Selecting an implementation pattern AGENDA
- 5. 20 22 FME User Conference How to integrate your systems The question asked most often by our customers and partners is “How do we connect [System A] with [System B]?” Application Integration is the automation of often manual processes that pass data between applications, departments, and organizations. The hard part of this process is defining the human interactions with the information that is exchanged.
- 6. 20 22 FME User Conference Customer Challenges CUSTOMER Busy with running day-to-day business – don’t have time to worry about connecting systems Strive for one platform system, but not always optimal for all departments – results in fragmented system Governments bound by procurement rules, which leads to fragmented set of systems. Retention of key technical talent difficult, resulting in loss of internal capabilities for new integrations & maintaining status quo. Drive to cloud means easier to deploy new applications, causing many more point solutions to solve specific problem IMPLEMENTER Retention of key technical talent, coupled with systems becoming more configurable, meaning more senior talent is required Increased complexity as implementer role is less coding to requirements, and more consulting and co-design with customer on final solution Application-specific experts that need to connect to new or unfamiliar software as part of the final solution Growing project backlog that needs staff hours to complete and get paid on
- 7. 20 22 FME User Conference Ideal Solution Expectations for digital experiences are based on consumer applications ▪ Automate business processes within a department by updating line-of-business applications to simplify the user experience ▪ Connect data from line-of-business systems into cross-department workflows to automate work (digital transformation) ▪ Transform inefficiency into innovation by empowering teams with data to analyze, make decisions, and innovate
- 8. 20 22 FME User Conference What happens to our data when a new application is installed? The biggest misconception among organizations who purchase new software, is the assumption that your new software application is plug-and-play with other systems. System A System B API API
- 9. 20 22 FME User Conference In short, application integration is a technical solution to a non-technical problem.
- 10. 20 22 FME User Conference Goal: Join multiple incompatible systems into a central, comprehensive system. What are some benefits of integrating our systems? Less mundane work Better data integrity Easier access to data Flexible infrastructure
- 11. 20 22 FME User Conference What is involved in the integration process? Review business processes Outline content catalog Diagram data flows Capture business rules Leverage reference data Deploy integration technology
- 13. 20 22 FME User Conference Outline content catalog System A System B Key data from each system
- 15. 20 22 FME User Conference Capture business rules System A System B Data mapping rules Data mapping rules Data mapping rules
- 16. 20 22 FME User Conference Leverage reference data System A System B Reference data Compare reference data
- 17. 20 22 FME User Conference Deploy integration technology: patterns Point-to-Point Enterprise Service Bus Publish-Subscribe API Wrapper
- 18. 20 22 FME User Conference Point-to-Point Pattern A typical organization has between 60 and 250 systems that support the overall business. Many of these exchange information through file transfers or point-to-point integrations. The majority are undocumented. The problem is that the combination of system interconnections creates a power relationship. B A C 3 systems = 3 connections B A C D E F J I H G 10 systems = 45 connections B A C D E 5 systems = 10 connections API-to- API
- 19. 20 22 FME User Conference Enterprise Service Bus Service Bus Application Application Application • Enables applications to work together in a de-coupled fashion. • Applications can easily be added or removed without affecting others • Requires a system-independent (simplified) data model for message exchange.
- 20. 20 22 FME User Conference Mapping To/From the Canonical Model: WorkID => WO_ID Description => Description Department + “:” + Staff => Resource The ESB Pattern depends upon a system-independent data model – a canonical model. The AttributeManager is a key Transformer supporting the ESB Pattern.
- 23. 20 22 FME User Conference API-Enabling Legacy Applications API Wrapper Middleware technology that presents an API to external applications by communicating each API request or response through the interface mechanism of the underlying system.
- 24. 20 22 FME User Conference “Most of the world will make decisions by either guessing or using their gut. They will be either lucky or wrong.” -- Suhail Doshi, Chief Executive Officer for MixPanel, on the importance of data.
- 25. 20 22 FME User Conference ▪ Integration ensures that the data necessary to analyze options and make decisions is available at the users’ fingertips in their application of choice. ▪ Integration is a process that involves business and technical users to capture their understanding and outline their requirements in a way that technical people can understand and implement. ▪ Integration combines incompatible systems into a holistic system that reduces mundane work, improves data quality and access, and creates a more flexible infrastructure of systems.
- 27. 20 22 FME User Conference Please Share Your Session Feedback Log in & navigate to the agenda. Select the session you attended Scroll down to “Session Feedback” Download EventMobi app Event code: fmeuc Click “Launch App” Fill out the survey and submit