Integration has always been complex but modernizing your organization’s digital platform ups the ante. Consider an organization whose digital platform includes both Cloud and on-premises solutions. While this organization may have extensive functionality within each application, there can be fragmented visibility – rendering an incomplete view of the whole business. Inconsistent user experiences across applications could impact the organization’s overall brand experience. Add to these challenges the costs to maintain, upgrade, and scale for business growth, while keeping an eye on agility. Indeed, integration is becoming even more complex. Thus, it should be of little surprise that Gartner suggests that integration work will account for half of the time and cost of building out a digital platform through 2020. In response, Daryl Eicher of Oracle presents Oracle Integration as an agile integration solution to address these challenges and augment overall digital transformation and modernization efforts.

Features and Benefits for a Hybrid Integration Strategy with Oracle Integration Platform

Oracle Integration is a hybrid Oracle integration platform with both on-premises and in Cloud capabilities. It flexibly connects applications and automates end-to-end business processes, accelerating your digital business’s integration strategy with the following features:

• 60+ prebuilt application adapters
• Support for both Oracle and non-Oracle apps
• Prebuilt integration recipes
• Embedded recommendations
• Connect SaaS with on-premises applications
• Digitize end-to-end business processes faster with prebuilt templates and connectors
• Visual designer for rules and embeddable mobile forms enable seamless UX

What are your organization’s greatest connectivity and integration challenges?

Compare your challenges to the benefits of the Oracle Integration Platform.

• Deliver Faster: Oracle Integration cuts time to deliver getting new connectivity and embedded automation live faster. Reducing the time required to do these kinds of projects gives organizations the ability to capitalize on new opportunities with efficiency and agility.
• Limit Risk: By simplifying technical complexity to deliver change through an integrated hybrid platform, organizations mitigate risk. Following consistent processes and knowing the status of integrations are eased with an integrated hybrid platform.
• Control Costs: Oracle Integration reduces the cost of development and minimizes costs associated with upgrade testing and validation.
• Future Proof: Gain quick wins and scale on-demand by taking advantage of RPA, Blockchain, Digital Assistants, and IoT.

Look to Others for Example of Integration Strategy

Eicher recommends that those planning to go forward with their digital transformation look to similar businesses that have recently made the journey. Based on the experiences of companies who have navigated the digital transformation terrain, Eicher offers that organizations focus first on a particular metric or small piece of a business process that matters to their business. Once the connectivity and automation have been integrated to address that metric, businesses can tackle future phases building from that success.

Eicher highlighted two companies who have recently leveraged Oracle Integration to advance their digital business:

• Mitsubishi Electric
• GE Digital

With Oracle Integration connecting their Oracle ERP, HCM, CX Cloud, and IoT Cloud Service, Mitsubishi Electric achieved a 60 percent increase in uptime worth millions per minute – reducing their manual processes by 45 percent for a sizable production increase.

Hybrid Integration Strategy

A hybrid integration success story, GE Digital achieved an 80 percent reduction in ERPs with 110 managed integrations, demonstrating the kind of simplifications that are necessary and profitable in large organizations as they modernize and transform their digital business.

Organizations need a connected business strategy to take advantage of the growth of modern SaaS applications. How are you modernizing your application and data integration strategy in your digital transformation?

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