Integrationworx: Maximizing Efficiency and Enabling Seamless Integration

The pace of data movement has quickened dramatically in recent years. This calls for new strategies for integrating data at the speed of business. Subsequently, companies are increasingly relying on data analytics in their decision making and their success can be determined by their ability to unlock the value of data and transforming it into trusted information. Although diversity brings greater data value, complexities can also emerge. With the proliferation of data sources, types and stores, enterprises are striving to deal with silos of data that are gathered from disparate sources while keeping it secure and managing it across different platforms. It is increasing the challenge of combining data into meaningful and actionable insights. Many data management systems and solutions are emerging in the market to address the problem of data inundation, but very few developments and efforts have been made towards integrating diverse pieces of information to realize end-objectives. While companies are investing in initiatives to increase the amount of data at their disposal, most are spending more time finding the data they need than making use of it in a beneficial way. “One common element within the challenges that CIO's face across all industries is data and the need to keep it secure, to manage it across different platforms and to deal with silos of data across systems built with little to no integration in mind. Data has become an essential asset with more being collected and generated faster then ever before,” asserts Mark MacIver, CEO, Integrationworx. Amassing a great deal of experience in delivering efficient data integration solutions, the firm uses a number of integration technologies and techniques to help companies address and overcome their market challenges. The firm guides companies to consider their data as an asset by focusing on their processes, business-driven needs/results, and flexible architecture. “We work in many different industries and can often provide interesting insight into what may be a better approach to solving critical data integration issues. The results can be realized as a competitive advantage or a unique way to save money or use resources more efficiently,” states MacIver.

Adapting to Recent Trends

Data integration now involves much more than extract, transform and load processes–it encompasses a wide range of tools and methodologies supporting real-time integration as well as traditional batch-oriented approaches. “The proliferation of data across organizations now spans traditional on-premise, cloud based, third party software as a service, mobile and business partners in B2B communications,” says MacIver. As traditional approaches towards data management and collation do not tend to scale well, Integrationworx delivers various hybrid methods that enable firms to leverage on their prior investments using newer technologies such as Hadoop, Amazon RedShift, and Google BigQuery. By exploring new markets and offerings alongside assisting customers to unravel business opportunities, the company integrates concise pools of information that are drawn on to feed transactional and analytic systems. As the industry changes present an upheaval, “we keep our employees well informed, trained and experienced with the latest trends and balance it with solid design and architecture,” asserts MacIver.

Real-world Solutions and Best Practices

Integrationworx’s five important services for data integration involve strategic development, analysis and design, solution implementation, operational management, training and skills development. The firm takes a holistic approach to understand the broader goals and challenges of an organization. “We capture the dependencies, inter dependencies and linkages both procedurally and technically. We help identify any gaps that may be present and then we work with an organization to implement and execute the right business solutions,” says MacIver.

“We also ensure that the businesses are able to participate, provide feedback and identify required changes as the solution is implemented.” Alternatively, the firm’s Analysis and Design services are engaged to ensure that the functional and non-functional needs are both feasible and attainable.