Often referred to interchangeably, enterprise application integration, business process integration, business process automation and business process management seek to leverage prior investment in applications and create new ways for them to work together and with humans. Ultimately, EAI/BPI is the “glue” that binds together best-of-breed apps—the ones users are most familiar with—and that provide the proper functionality for specific industry or divisional requirements. Unfortunately, despite their appeal and sophistication many of these applications were never designed to interoperate.
Visiphor delivers EAI and BPI solutions that are process or transactional-centric, and reduce latency in the organization. Historically, humans have been the main cause of operational latency, but the right EAI/BPI solution can, for example, distribute a process to a pool of workers in order to expedite a variety of workflows, or it may allow managers and staff to monitor “snapshots” of organizational workflow and transactions to troubleshoot bottlenecks, enable accurate forecasting, and improve collaboration. In increasingly complex logistical and JIT inventory-based operations, these capabilities are imperative to growth success.
What distinguishes Visiphor’s EAI/BPI and Workflow solutions is freedom. Our expertise with partner platforms such as Microsoft BizTalk and K2.net gives you the freedom to decide exactly how to create your infrastructure stack, then expand and scale it as necessary. Visiphor solutions also support repeatable decision-making, merging business intelligence with process management.
Additionally, external factors are contributing to the rising popularity of Visiphor EAI/BPI/Workflow solutions:
- an accelerated mergers and acquisitions business environment, where combined entities need to quickly and effectively combine operations, systems and processes
- the global economy, which demands localization on an unprecedented scale, and the holistic blending of various regulatory, cultural and linguistic business environments
- Sarbanes-Oxley and other legislation that imposes higher standards of corporate governance and accountability
