The trend of consolidation, mergers and uptake is one of the key trends in the development of modern Russian business. It determines importance of resolving the task of integration of uncoordinated information systems of the enterprises that are part of industrial groups and associations.

Rapidly changing conditions and tasks of modern business require flexibility in business processes management. Enterprises should provide adaptation of IT infrastructure to nascence of new business needs by way of integration and extension of the existing corporate applications and creation of new specialized applications.

Today there is a wide range of software products of the leading vendors at the market (Oracle, IBM, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Informatica), aimed at ensuring the maximum quality of resolving these tasks. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and technologies of web-services based on open standards are very popular.

Along with the use of modern technologies, a major component of successful resolution of the task of management systems integration is experience of realization of large-scale projects in this sphere. Having such experience, experts of Borlas Consulting Group create applications and services, integrate new and existing information systems of the enterprises.

There are following Borlas integration solutions:

• Establishment of common information space by way of combining weakly connected information resources of the enterprise.
• Deployment of universal means of data accumulation and delivery, not requiring extension of communication channels used by the company.
• Implementation of analytical applications as business analysis tools.
• Implementation of a universal workplace within the framework of common information space.
• On-line access to the key information about the company`s activities irrespective of the location of the user.

Provision of different levels of integration:

• Integration of business applications, ensuring establishment of a common information space at the enterprise.
• Establishment of a corporate analytical system, providing the experts taking management decision with full, authentic and actual information.
• Formation of common standardized individual system of access to information resources of the enterprise.
• Implementation of the system of collaborative work, simplifying joint work with the documents.

Effects of integration solutions implementation

• Resolved tasks:
• Creation of common information medium for enterprise management, allowing to get an overall on-line picture of what is happening, minimize «human factor» influence, simplify information exchange among employees and ensure accumulation of corporate knowledge;
• IT support of business processes of the enterprise;
• Maintenance of the investments previously made in IT;
• Decrease of the total cost of ownership of the enterprise`s information system.
• Achieved performance:
• Enhancement of the actuality of management information and accounting resulting in:
• enhancing efficiency and quality of management solutions;
• enhancing transparency and investment appeal of the business.
• Enhancement of the economic efficiency and decrease of the company`s costs by way of IT support of business processes of the enterprise;
• Cutback of man-hours on the input of information into accounting systems.

Services of Borlas Consulting Group on the implementation of integration solutions:

The scope of activities under the project of integration solutions implementation is determined by the qualitative composition of the required activities.

Levels of provided consulting:

• Sector-specific consulting at the level of business processes;
• Technological consulting with affixement to the product range of the specific vendor;

Each specific project is divided into stages:

• Consulting
• Pre-project investigation and modeling of business processes and business requirements of the enterprise
• Generation of integration development concept (evaluation of the technical platform of the solution)
• Proposals on generation of integration solutions of the customer
• Implementation services
• Investigation of the information space of the customer
• Definition of the project`s goal
• Description of requirements (technical assignment elaboration) and their further realization
• Elaboration of architecture and concept of integration solution
• Installation, adaptation and setting of the vendors` software, development of specialized components (adapters, portlets, web-services, etc.), setting of data loading and cleaning procedures (ETL processes)
• Training of users, elaboration of operating and methodological documentation
• Testing and trial operation of the solution