B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

You might know why you need business integration, but do the higher-ups at your company understand? What might be clear to one person may not be so obvious to another. However, you should not abandon your vision for business integration simply because members of the C-suite are not sold.

What do system integration and a road trip have in common? You need maps for both if you plan on getting anywhere. With system integration, data mapping is a crucial step to integration success.

This post addresses why data mapping is so vital, what can go wrong without data mapping, and how to start data mapping.

Integration projects can be lengthy and require a lot of resources. When you’re planning an integration project, you not only have to consider the task at hand, but also the staff to complete the project. It does not mean that your employees can't carry it out on their own necessarily. Challenges often arise when employees are juggling several other mission-critical tasks.

When you think of the term “do-it-yourself project,” you might think that DIY means “do everything yourself.” But what if you do not have the skills, knowledge, or resources required? You might not do everything yourself, or might try, and this might leave the success of the project in jeopardy.  Health checks and integration system deployment audits often result from employee missteps that occurred at design and deployment time.

For most people in IT, documentation is not any fun and we wish it would go away (at least that is how I always felt). As our company has grown, I've realized the importance of documentation and the benefits it provides.