Enterprise Product Integration using Biztalk ServerTHE CUSTOMER An “e-distributor” of chemical products and services especially, fine, specialty, and semi-commodity chemicals. Their focus is on offering a personalized e-distribution service to the Fine and Specialty chemical market. Using proven Internet-enabled technologies, they are able to provide a faster, easier and more personalized service than traditional distributors.
THEIR NEED The customer’s IT initiatives were directed towards acquiring best-of-breed products for different functional areas, like Onyx for CRM, Great Plains for ERP and Yantra for BPM. They wanted these products to be integrated to support and facilitate their business processes. Some of the challenges that were identified were the synchronizing of data between different systems, reducing redundancy and overheads due to continuously changing business needs.
OUR DEED Aspire worked with the customer towards evolving a long-term strategic roadmap while keeping existing products up-to-date with respect to technology and business scenarios. A phased approach was evolved towards coming up with a single, unified system based on Microsoft technologies and removal of the redundant products.
Simultaneously, Aspire worked towards keeping the current integration between various products functional without really modifying the customer’s existing business processes. Aspire also adopted a plug-n-play and de-coupled approach towards the integration to prevent over-dependence on any one product and for better security. View the full story (PDF)  |
