Start the digital acceleration with an integration platform

The global pandemic has accelerated digitization at many companies, partly due to the fact that people are working from home. This does not appear to be at the expense of productivity. On the contrary: in many cases it is even more efficient. Many organizations are therefore also open to other ways of digitization. For example, when requesting leave, approving declarations, but also for complex tasks such as planning transport. In this blog you can read how you can take many steps with an integration platform.

The key to accelerated digitization lies in the easy collection, processing and use of data. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) can play an important role in this. With EDI you exchange electronic data with customers, suppliers and partners, without human intervention. That saves manual tasks, ensures that errors are reduced, and most importantly: it works super fast.

To make EDI possible, the right foundation is needed. This is precisely where organizations often encounter challenges. Think of outdated systems, a shortage of IT knowledge, but also a fragmented IT landscape. Applications are constantly being added that generate and collect data. That is cluttered and the apps speak different languages. As a result, they cannot easily communicate with each other.

An integration platform as a node for your date

With an integration platform you remove these challenges. Such a platform links all applications in your organization and thus forms a node for data. Because the platform works via the cloud, a lot of scalability is possible. Data is synchronized, which saves a lot of time-consuming and repetitive work. In addition, you eliminate the margin of error that occurs when exporting and importing data.

How does that work in practice? By combining and analyzing data, organizations can work more efficiently: for example, by aligning production and demand, arranging transport on time and combining journeys. Think of a logistics service provider that creates a link with its customers to see how many trips it needs to plan. Or a customer who orders a product from a webshop and receives an e-mail stating the day of delivery. They also prefer to be given a specific time. These kinds of possibilities are often no longer a wish, but an expectation.

Fortunately, setting up an integration platform is not complicated: you can purchase it as a service. This has several advantages:

1. Ease of use: the product does not have to be purchased;
2. Technical lighting: an experienced knowledge partner takes the management, implementation and maintenance off your hands;
3. Overview: The integration platform brings together data flows, organizes data and presents them in a central dashboard. Data becomes information.

With an integration platform you lay the foundation for a renewed IT infrastructure, and you can actually grow into an innovative, high-performance digital organization. No longer make decisions based on gut feeling, but based on data.

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