Business Integration

We live in an era of fierce global and domestic business competition. In this climate of global, deregulated and highly competitive markets, strong companies consolidate  while weak companies are acquired or merged. In the race to retain customers and grow customer base, healthcare businesses embark on sweeping transformation. In this situation, Information Technology has changed from a supporting role to a strategic tool necessary for sucessful business transformation. Vast amounts of time, effort, and money has been spent to implement effective information systems, yet many initiatives either grossly exceed projected schedule and budget or fail to meet business needs. Our founders audited hundreds of these failed initiatives. While some failures occurred because solutions were driven by technology instead of business requirements, many others were a result of business innovation and transformation, business process management and application development initiatives were disconnected.

Historically, business strategies dictated that both organizations and software applications were functional in nature. In the 80's, with the advent of "Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)" organizations focused on managing and optimizing cross-functional business processes to meet the rapid changes in their business model. Presently for businesses to remain competitive, successful business strategies require real-time situational awareness of enterprise business processes and dynamic cross-functional business process collaboration.

No single application vendor can respond adequately to the needs of global corporations. As a result, over time corporations have purchased business area specific applications from multiple vendors leading to custom integration challenges.

Leading global business enterprises integrate logistics systems with suppliers and customers, creating global collaborative business processes. In the past few years, application vendors attempted to simplify the integration challenge by introducing product suites such as Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply-Chain Planning that feature integrated business functionality.

To meet this challenge, successful Global 1000 business enterprises have adopted processes of continuous business process transformation. They constantly reinvent themselves adjusting and adapting rapidly to address dynamic customer and market needs. To accomplish this goal, enterprises often combine continuous business process transformation and fast track application development. The business enterprise, and applications that empower them, increasingly depend on the system integration infrastructure to meet the need for the flexibility to operate in an environment of continuous, increasingly rapid change. To meet corporate expectations for change, IT needs to quickly modify and implement changes in business rules affecting the collaboration of multiple business processes and systems across multiple business areas.

Akasha Connect™ addresses the difficulty of integrating disparate applications. What began in 1989 as a workflow-based integration infrastructure to link stovepipe hospital information systems has evolved into what is now known as the Akasha Connect™ Intelligent Data Fusion Engine. CoyoteWorks has successfully customized and implemented the Intelligent Data Fusion Engine to support the integration of disparate legacy business systems of Global 1000 clients. With Akasha Connect™, CoyoteWorks can help leverage the complexities of technology to innovate the art of business into a seamless competitive advantage that delivers long-term sustainable economic growth.