SYSTEM INTEGRATION

Adopting new technologies or implementing new solutions in business processes often requires complex software integrations or system integrations both between existing in-house applications and with multiple third-party systems.

Why are system integrations necessary?

Software integration helps organisations improve productivity by enabling different applications to work together and communicate more efficiently. . By enabling communication between systems, organisational time and business costs can be drastically reduced, optimising existing resources.

Maximising the value of data

One of the biggest advantages of systems integration is that it maximises the value of the data, i.e. it reduces the complexity of the data by using tools that can simplify all the data to obtain clear and simple information, thus providing great benefits to the company.

Improving decision-making

Having access to the most relevant data and having this data incorporated into the applications and services used by the company facilitates and helps employees to make better decisions, as they have information about customers and collaborators at their disposal. This way, the Integration of Systems and Data provides accessible and relevant information in daily actions.

Optimising work

Systems and Data Integration makes data information centralised and therefore available to everyone, facilitating collaboration between all necessary departments.

How do we remove barriers to system integrations?

Architecture Design

We analyse your business and software infrastructure to deliver the most effective solution. Our goal is to improve the quality and consistency of data within your organisation and increase compatibility between different software applications that may be related.

Required connectors development

We design and implement customised integration software that allows the connection between different data end enterprise applications taking into account the analysis of functional and non-functional requirements.

Identify automatable processes

We analyse the software and its associated processes to identify and prioritise processes that can be automated, as they can be major cost reducers.

Design & Run the proper tests

During system integrations we design and execute the appropriate tests that allow us to obtain a quality solution before its deployment.

Monitoring the system integration solution

Once the software integration solution has been implemented, we take care of monitoring it to ensure its correct functioning and establish the adjustments for its optimal execution if necessary.

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Full implementation cycle of enterprise application integration

At Yapiko we address the full cycle of data and enterprise application integration:

Advice and integration planning.
Migration, re-engineering, re-architecture of the applications and systems to be integrated (if necessary).
Implementation of the integration solution.
Integration testing at system and component level.
Post-delivery support.
Continuous management and evolution of the integrated ecosystem (on demand).

Integration solutions

There are different integration solutions and the usage of one or another will depend on the type of scenary being covered.
Frecuently, integration of business apps tend to combine multiple solutions to get the appropiate integration.

Data level

Type	Files	Shared data bases
Function	Generating and obtaining files between systems	For data sharing
Pros	· Easy to implement · Universal style · Abstraction between systems	· Integration almost universal · Easy to implement (write/read in the DB) · Abstraction between systems and decoupling between systems.
Cons	· Difficulty in Error Processing · Systems out of sync · It only works to transfer data and not to perform functionality.	· Performance problems when accessing more applications of the DB · Changes difficult to make due to the possible impact on the rest of the applications · Data ownership (which system is the owner?) · It only works for data transfer (no functionality execution)

At API Applications Interfaces level

For consumption of services and data. The implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a standard and scalable platform.

Pros	Cons
· Data Encapsulation · Integration with External Systems · Easy to implement	· High Coupling between systems (dependency between systems) · Asynchronous communications (it is intended for synchronous mode) · Broadcast communications (being point-to-point communications, it would be necessary to call all the services to which one wanted to communicate)

Messaging

Communicates with the applications, that read and/or send messages. It is an Event Oriented Architecture. It is also known by terms like Bus, Message Broker or Queuing System. Examples of these systems would be Mule ESB, Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix, BizTalk (Microsoft)

Pros	Cons
· Highly decoupled systems (they do not know each other, they know the broker or messaging component) · Allows Broadcast Communications · Allows asynchronous communications · Great scalability	· Difficult to implement and configure · Difficulty on asynchronous error handling · Lack of Standardization (there are many protocols)

SUCCESS STORIES

TIME TRACKING PLATFORM

In 2017 Yapiko decided to develop an internal application (web application) to integrate all the tools of the different clients that were involved in the process of sending the Working Hours from their own Hours Control System to others used by their clients.

TELCO COMPANY

A logistics company needed to integrate a new telecommunications operator customer into its Mule ESB system on the one hand, and its associated courier/installer who would carry out the operations required during the logistics process on the other.