System Integration
Sales, Production, Accounts, IT, Administration are all essential functions within a business. Foursquare Solutions will streamline your business by examining all the processes within key functional areas and identify those that can be combined or integrated with other processes. The result will be an efficient and cost-effective organisation as a whole.
Custom business software doesn’t just bring your systems together, it improves the productivity of your staff. Streamlined workflows and the transparency of worker interactions can lead to a position were business process systems communicate directly. A streamlined process reduces data input, entry errors and costly delays and the result is a lean business that has the edge over its competitors.
If you use more than one software system some tasks will inevitably be reproduced. By creating a single point of data entry for a key business process you will eliminate duplicated, and costly, re-typing and data input errors. The result is that delivery and billing functions can happen far more speedily.
Most companies that have done business for decades have some old, legacy IT systems in use and running on their own on-premises servers. These systems may be essential to the core business of the organization and cannot be replaced easily with a more modern IT system. Integration with such legacy systems may be tricky as they may completely lack any ready-made interfacing capability. Most systems do, however, have the capability to read or write information into a file folder that can the accessed, for example, through an FTP connection by another system, sometimes the only way to integrate such sub-systems with other sub-systems is to read and/or write data directly in their database.
A modern integration solution must be able to also handle these type of integration scenarios. Cloud-based solutions typically use local, on-premises adapters that provide the needed functionality for these integrations. Such adapters act as an active local “interface” between the passive legacy system (or its database) and the cloud-based iPaaS solution. If needed, additional business rules and other functionality regarding the legacy system integration will be handled in the iPaaS service, keeping the maintenance of such business logic centralized and easy. This way the customer does not need to make any costly changes in its legacy IT systems, but the system integrator can provide the integration logic outside the company firewall.
