Decade of Integration

The past decade has brought us an unprecedented level of business integration around the world, and if you're not on board then you should consider buying a ticket.  Data integration through web application and web services is an efficient way of linking business applications together to improve the speed of business processing and reduce labor expenses.  Using our Logos Technology Platform, you can easily make your inventory, availability, and price schedules available online to your participating partners.

Integration Benefits

When applied correctly, integrating data on the web will improve your business processing by reducing the time and labor required to perform day-to-day operations. For example, when a supplier wants to know the latest price for a product, instead of calling your sales office, they can visit your information portal and get the price immediately, even at night or on weekends when the office is closed. Rather than answering individual inquiries, your sales staff simply updates the sales database once, and then can focus on making sales calls to prospective clients.

There are many benefits of using web applications, and we'd like to point our the major ones.

Mobility

Many people have been in the situation where they away from their office and needed to access data stored on their local computer.  Whether your using MS Access, FileMaker Pro, or another software package, these databases are stored on the local file system and not mobile.  When you leave the office, do you find yourself thinking, "Should I grab the external hard-drive?"  With web applications, you don't need to - all your data is online and accessible from your laptop or mobile phone.

Accessibility

Web Applications allow people from all over the world to access your data in a controlled and secure manner.  Whether they are employees, customers, or random website visitors, the Logos Technology Platform lets you build sophisticated interfaces to integrate data into your organization's information portal.  For example, when a business in Germany wants to extract a list of prices form your business in Hong Kong, they can use the portal to download the list in XML and automatically update their own business systems.

Data Security

When you use free web services to store data, the data is stored with a third party that may or may not protect the data's security.  Using the Logos Technology Platform, the data is stored on your website, giving you direct control over access to the data.

Optimization

Another example of how web integration can help you is the usage of a data warehouse, a read-only copy of an internal database optimized for generating reports. These reports can then by used by constituents, either internal or external, to make better business decisions.  The data is exported from the production system, such as an Oracle SAP database, and imported into the data warehouse where Logos generates the necessary reports for your decision makers.

Integration on the Net

OurDataSolution can help you create dynamic information portals using our Logos Technology Platform to improve your business processes. This could be a simple form and report about sales, various interfaces to a human resources database, a data warehouse, or a custom application specific to your business needs.  Let us know what you need by contacting by submitting a Project Request, or email us at consulting at consulting@ourdatasolution.com .