Enterprise Integration

Enterprise Integration

As organizations work to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, the ability for IT departments to demonstrate their value and deliver results to the business has received renewed focus. Businesses are demanding more than ever from their IT function, requiring more than just minor operational efficiencies. The ability to evolve IT from a cost center to a value producer has become a vital part of an organization’s IT strategy.

The IT landscape has seen an explosive rate of growth over the past several years. However, simply throwing technology at a business problem or implementing technology for technology’s sake is neither a strategy nor a prudent course of action for any organization. New trends and emerging technologies bring with them an entire set of challenges and potential pitfalls. The ability to effectively navigate this IT landscape can determine an organization’s ultimate success or downfall.

Enterprise Integration Overview

Portal Consulting understands the challenges associated with complex systems implementations. Integration of the right technologies ensures the fulfillment of the end-to-end processes that run your business or government agency. Portal Consulting Enterprise Integration practice is built on the knowledge that constructing a well architected solution in today’s complex enterprises requires not only an understanding of enabling technologies, but also how those technologies support and align with the enterprise’s business initiatives.

Our Enterprise Integration practitioners possess the vision and experience to design and implement enterprise-class solutions for our clients. Whether it is supporting the integration of an ERP or CRM solution or the construction of a front end web portal, our Enterprise Integration offerings are focused on providing the critical components of your organization’s IT infrastructure. Our Enterprise Integration offering is made up of the following 6 core solutions:

  • Enterprise Content Management
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Integration Solutions
  • Open Source Integration
  • Web Portal Solutions
  • Solution Architecture

Enterprise Content Management

Our Enterprise Content Management (ECM) team has extensive experience in providing services and solutions to help our clients leverage their unstructured content. Whether the need is for Records Management, Collaboration, or Web Content Management, our consultants use industry leading technologies (including Documentum, Microsoft, and IBM) to build successful ECM programs for our clients. For more information on our ECM offering.

Enterprise Architecture

Our Enterprise Architecture group has broad experience in designing Application, Data and Integration architectures for our clients, ranging from start-up companies to the Fortune 1000 and Government Agencies of all sizes. Utilizing best-of-breed architecture modeling tools and frameworks (including Zachman and FEA), our architects provide engineered results that are usable, traceable, and integrated reference guides able to evolve with the IT organization and enterprise application portfolio. For more information on our EA offering,.

Integration Solutions

Our Integration Solutions team connects an organization’s application and data environments using the leading integration and middleware tools, standards, and patterns. With a goal towards maximizing the ROI on IT investments for our clients, our experts allow potentially disparate IT environments to function as a cohesive, technologically agnostic solution.

Open Source Integration

Open Source Integration provides specialization around the implementation, customization, and support services related to implementing the best of breed products from the Open Source community. WCI has successfully utilized open source technologies as part of larger implementations and we continue to evaluate and participate in several business-focused open source initiatives.

Web Portal Solutions

Our Web Portal Solutions team creates web applications that bring distributed data, applications, and services together, allowing for business insight, collaboration, and agility. Our architects use a wide variety of tools, including Oracle, BEA, and Vignette, to provide dynamic and adaptable interfaces into our clients’ expanding suite of business applications.

Solution Architecture

Our Solution Architecture group provides an overarching component for the implementation of all the architectural elements required to design and implement solutions in our Enterprise Integration practice. Our architects use an approach driven by proven methodologies (RUP, SODA, etc) to provide full implementation lifecycle coverage for our clients.