How to Achieve Better Decision-Making
Is your organization modernizing its business processes? Are you still managing projects with disparate spreadsheets and documents on an outdated legacy system? More than ever, it is vital to use a sophisticated planning tool where data is current and accurate with clear visibility across all aspects of the project when planning and executing new business directives.
Whether you are looking to minimize risk and costly errors, or speed up business processes your organization could benefit from Oracle's Application Integration Architecture tool. This article will discuss Oracle's Integration Architecture and why leveraging it to connect Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) Cloud Planning, and Oracle Supply Chain Management facilitate faster and better decision-making.
What is Oracle's Integration Architecture?
According to Oracle.com, "Oracle Integration is an enterprise connectivity and automation platform for quickly modernizing applications, business processes, APIs, and data." Oracle's integration framework, Application Integration Architecture (AIA), provides a structure to build business-process flows. It helps businesses manage data flow and simplifies new process design. The Application Integration Architecture is available on a public IP address that continuously talks to other IP addresses so that no additional infrastructure is required beyond the Oracle Integration Cloud.
AIA also has a framework to integrate applications or connect with other technologies. You can manage and monitor all cross-functional business processes, often spread across multiple applications, with live Oracle Integration Cloud connectivity access. As a result, customers can gain better visibility across all applications and avoid synchronization issues and polling-related delays.
Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) was built to make cloud-to-cloud, or SaaS-to-SaaS integration, faster and easier. Customers can define, collect, and share real-time business insights by utilizing the pre-built dashboards that can be embedded within the application.
Additionally, you can speed up your application modernization by taking advantage of the pre-built integration flows to reduce the time taken to complete application integrations. Oracle.com reveals that "Developers and cloud architects can connect SaaS and on-premises applications six times faster with a visual development experience, pre-built integrations, and embedded best practices" with the Oracle Integration Cloud.
Accelalpha's Integration Architecture
Here at Accelalpha, we can take your application integration even further by helping you connect previously disconnected business functions so that your organization can gain better visibility across sales, operations, and financials. In fact, we've built hundreds of file-based and web-based integrations with a wide array of external systems, including E-Business Suite, Concur, Workday, and Salesforce.
Integrating existing business functions into the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution allows your organization to streamline planning, and access up-to-date data from a single solution. Rather than having financials in one silo, and sales or operations in another, you can connect these business functions for more accurate forecasting, planning, and reporting.
Accelerated Implementation Framework
Accelalpha's Accelerated Implementation Framework comprises four elements that help our customers overcome their most significant business challenges.
- Reusable Artifacts: To achieve an accelerated cloud deployment, Accelalpha developed reusable artifacts like pre-defined test scripts, master data templates, proprietary tools, and a business assessment framework.
- Pre-built Integrations: With our experience gained from hundreds of Oracle implementations, Accelalpha can jump-start your Oracle Integration Cloud project by deploying one of over thirty pre-built application integrations.
- Hybrid Agile-Waterfall Methodology: The Accelalpha hybrid methodology allows more flexibility during the development process and helps our teams to identify issues early on.
- Reference Architectures: Accelalpha's consultants have developed detailed reference architectures based on industry best practices. These Reference Architectures describe ideal Oracle integrations that address specific business needs and include:
- Reference work process flows
- Workflow automation
- Streamlined user interfaces
- KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and reports
Get Started
Are you ready to modernize your organization's business processes and applications? Getting started can be as simple as booking a consultation with one of Accelalpha's experts.