B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

This is the first in our three-part series, “Integrationists Wanted.” The series examines the essential role EDI, MFT, EAI and API specialists can play in helping to create value and competitive advantage for companies and organizations in an era of economic disruption.

At Remedi, we’ve been all in on system and business integration as a corporate and competitive strategy since 1994 when we all did was EDI.

As companies look for ways to respond to the current sluggishness and uncertainty in the economy in the wake of Covid-19, IT staffing budgets often go under the microscope first. Accordingly, the term “outsourcing” enters the conversation.

Before Covid-19 began its march across the globe in early March of 2020, the U.S. economy was surging, and unemployment was at a post WWII-era low of 3.8% according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

If you’re strategizing with your LOB colleagues and decision makers at your company about how to level up your B2B integration capabilities, you’re not alone.

For the past several years, "digital transformation" and "digital maturity" have been thrown about (sometimes correctly, sometimes not). Some firms have ignored those concepts, believing that they didn’t apply to them, or they weren’t ready for that transition. However, it's become clear that now is the time to embark on a digital transformation as well as to increase your firm's digital maturity.