You evaluated several vendors, put together a legion like team, and chose your data exchange model. The team designed everything from scratch, restructured IT at all ends, and aligned your B2B networks including technologies, processes, applications, data, etc. with your partners. But after few months of setting up the B2B network, your IT reverts to old, manual workflows for enabling connectivity between partners.
You tried doing everything right yet it all went wrong. Why?
Conventional data exchange models look attractive, they promise several cloud benefits like faster deployment, elastic scalability, and greater control. However, they cannot return the answers for orchestrating a partner to partner data exchange process and monetizing B2B networks. Enterprises can miss out on several opportunities as IT wastes several months of time in building connections with other partner organizations that have distinct IT models and data formats.
Today’s B2B networks don’t have the ability to write their own integrations. They rely on heavy technical support for building integrations. The developers spend several months of time for building integrations. Business teams have to wait till the time these connections are built. Enterprises miss out on business opportunities and time to revenue during this process.
Successful companies are the ones which can create quick connections and deliver products quickly without delay. They are able to connect multiple vendors, partners and establishing connectivity between them. By connecting high thought put technologies in a seamless manner they are able to share data and reach revenue faster.
Self-Service Integration is the Key to Counteract Data Issues
Many enterprises are still relying on older methods to create integrations which are radically difficult to use. However, they are facing the same old challenges with this approach and reverting back to older methods. Enterprises can overcome many of these data issues with self-service integration capability.
Self-service integration is a novel approach that allows modern-day enterprises to build integrations. It enables enterprises to deal with an intensifying barrage of data and source it to different systems without heavy engineering and technical coding. This allows business users to build connections and IT teams to assume governance role. In this way, business users can drive business initiatives and IT teams can drive innovations.
Self-Service integration provides essential capabilities to integrate differentiated technologies and connect different applications. The service-oriented architecture enables users to build reusable integrations in agile and scalable. These connections can be reused over and again for getting connected with other partners. Business users can use modular components to extend services and driving profitability.
Automation of integration reduces operational overheads as teams don’t have to set up teams from scratch. The integrations don’t need costly updates or maintenance. Teams can use the same integrations for garnering more efficiencies.
Selecting the Right Self-Service Integration Tool
Selecting the right integration can be challenging as there are many services which promise ease-of-use. However, they entail costly coding and updates. To select the right solution, organizations should evaluate different capabilities. Here is a list of components to consider while selecting the right solution. This will help you select a solution that promises lasting success from your B2B network.
