Planning Enterprise-Wide Application Integration for a Multi-Billion Corporation

Industry

Manufacturing, Retail

Technologies

ServiceNow

About

The Client is a conglomerate with multi-billion revenue that runs 30+ diverse businesses and deals with over 300 world-famous brands. The company operates in such areas as engineering, logistics & inventory, automotive industry financial consulting (for banks, investment companies, etc.), retail, food & beverage, advertising and more.

Challenge

The Clients businesses had independent IT infrastructures. Thus, operational data was isolated across multiple CRMs, ERPs, POSs and ecommerce solutions, supply chain management systems and other enterprise systems. As a result of disintegrated data, the Client encountered a number of inconveniences

Solution

VolgoTechnologies consulting team started with a thorough examination of the Clients applications. During several Q&A sessions with the senior management of each business, our consultants identified existing business processes, information flows, technical details of communication protocols, data formats in use and the required data refresh rates.

Having assessed the revealed problems in the examined processes, VolgoTechnologies IT consultants suggested integrating the applications and systems in use to make the Clients IT infrastructure better serve the current business needs.

Staging

Data Ware House

Data Ware House

Desktop Application

Results

The Client obtained four comprehensively described and assessed integration scenarios and tech stacks for the quick and effective consolidation of the conglomerate’s data. All four action plans allowed for having clean, accurate and consistent data, timely available and moved safely across different systems.

Technologies and Tools

Q&A sessions, functional decomposition, business requirements analysis, comparative analysis.