Businesses now relying on information technology for co-ordination, management and tracking of all major business processes, infrastructure and resources, System integration take advantage of this aspect of information technology to boost the businesses to next level.
System integration is the process of integrating all business processes and operations to a core entity, the central server, which stores and maintains database of all data also hosts many business applications that establish communications with client systems.
System Integration, why is it Important for Businesses?
Businesses can be brought down to a single unit irrespective of the places they are operated from.
It helps in offering customers standardised service as the software, data and applications hosted can be accessed from a central server.
It facilitates to reduce a huge part of manual labour required for integrating different branches, departments, databases and networks.
It provides better security to enterprise data and infrastructure and provides additional features like data backup, data recovery and business continuity solutions, data archive and database update.
Real-time monitoring and management could be implemented across the organization where everything will be available on demand & on time.
Provides better support for virtualization, consolidation, networking processes and for cloud computing which serves as a treat to new enterprise IT solutions.
It provides an opportunity to save the operating costs concerning servers, related hardware and networking, workforce requirements.