eChannel Transformation

Premise: How to develop Business Integration – what are businesses looking for?

Business Concepts

Businesses have a range of Business Integration states

Specific application to application integration needs
Specific inter or intra integration needs such as B2B
A set of common services that needs to be shared across business units intra and inter-prise
Specific services that need to be integrated
Legacy systems that need to be integrated
Rapid Delivery and reuse

Moving to a “Pre integrated” platform
To be able to order services and changes in a predefined way
“The CSS Platform is easy because it is pre-integrated so you can just order changes and process these..”
“We want the OSS to be like this too”
Ways to improve software development process
Automated software design – software delivery optimisation – “from art-form to predefined, repeatable process”
Reliable solution delivery
Ways to work with programmes and sponsors
Business units competing priorities
Common cross-overs in resources and capabilities pulling priorities in different directions
Funding centrally or by programme

A move towards a factory based software delivery approach
Where internal organisation can use reliable IT services
Where external organisations can access and collaborate in an effective way
Where 3rd party IT and transformation service providers can provide effective services and collaboration
API technology
Wrapped legacy
“90 day” cycle delivery mechanism
Configurable patterns
Design patterns
Run-time patterns
Services can be modified at Integration and Business process level depending on the level of abstraction and pre-integrated technology used
Business process management
Business services design
Interface design
Functional and data model abstraction
Managed IDE

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