B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

For several years now, we’ve devoted considerable blog space to urging subscribers to assess the current state of their EDI, B2B, and system integration capabilities and compare what they find to the desired state.

Efficiency has always been a major issue in the transportation industry, yet it’s taken on even greater importance today. More data is coming in than ever before, and customer expectations about efficiency (and digital transformation) have changed. How can the transportation industry overcome these challenges to thrive in a competitive, uncertain business landscape?

You understand that modern integration solutions are critical to business growth today. The companies that thrive now are the ones with a robust digital infrastructure in place. Yet, you need to convince your CEO and other members of the C-suite.

What’s the relationship between your integration architecture and your business goals? It’s a much closer linkage than you think: the proper integration architecture enables you to be more efficient and profitable.

On many helicopters, a bolt, pin, or nut holds the rotors together. Helicopter pilots call it the “Jesus bolt,” because if something happens to it in flight, all you can do is pray. Your integration environment is the Jesus bolt of your company – critical business processes flow through this technology, and if something happens to it, major problems erupt.