The integration of information – its movement and transformation from one place to another – is a necessity in every business. Yet the approach taken toward integration is most often a technical exercise with minimal effort or business planning invested.

As businesses continue to make changes to their processes, their relationships, and their organization, they exacerbate the already complicated myriad of point-to-point connections between systems, trading partners, and the supply chain.

The results may be subtle at first but become more noticeable as sales order errors increase, inventory moves slower, vendor fines and charge-backs increase, customer satisfaction decreases, and the bottom line is ultimately affected.

StoneDonut recognizes integration as a vital component to a company’s overall success. Our integration model contains seven distinct categories which promote quality, time-to-market, and risk reduction:

• Business Value
• Messaging
• Connectivity
• Information Structure and Transformation
• Alerts and Monitoring
• Platform and Architecture
• Security     

We combine this integration model with our Xecute Delivery Framework and (DO)² Service Library to provide our customers with a cost effective solution to their integration challenges.

There are many areas within the business enterprise where integration solutions can provide significant benefits such as:

Electronic Processing of Customer and Vendor Transactions:

The increase of technology capability coupled with the decrease in its cost has made it affordable for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) to compete with larger organizations for market share.

Today’s SMBs can conduct electronic commerce using the same tools and techniques as larger organizations. Many vendors are requiring that their customers utilize electronic commerce technologies such as EDI or XML to improve their own bottom line. Failure to do so can result in fines and worse – lost business.

The major challenge SMBs encounter is the ability to implement these tools and techniques as quickly and efficiently as possible – with little impact to the business. SMBs are usually not structured to maintain and support the technology required to perform this type of commerce.

There can also be many different types of technologies that must be “connected” together along with many different types of methods that can be used to communicate commerce between customers and vendors.

StoneDonut has the expertise and capability to provide SMBs with a cost effective solution to their commerce problems. We have brought our large-organization integration experiences to the SMB marketplace in order to provide the skills and resources needed to achieve these goals.

Our expertise in enterprise application integration (EAI), business to business integration (B2B) and service oriented architecture (SOA) reduces integration complexity and increases business value by seamlessly sharing information to your commerce partners with little impact to your business.

We assist SMBs in the discovery, development, and deployment of EAI, B2B, eCommerce, and other eBusiness integration solutions. Our experience with BizTalk Server middleware will help you identify a turnkey solution tailored to your business needs.