Asidua

Innovate with ADI

In our experience, many enterprises in today's global economy are striving to reach similar goals. These goals generally fall into one of the following categories [diagram, right]:

• lowering costs
• being more customer centric
• adding new capabilities to your portfolio
• achieving compliance with government or industry standards
• future proofing your IT investment

In order to reach these goals an enterprise will typically look to leverage its resources, and those of its suppliers and partners as effectively as possible. These resources are typically:

• processes which produce products or deliver services
• ICT systems which support these processes
• people who use systems to carry out the processes
• data about customers, products and resources which is manipulated during the execution of processes

It is processes that organisations look to as the primary catalyst for change to support these goals.

►Driving Innovators

By applying constant innovation an enterprise can evolve and change its processes, to meet the demands of its customers. Such innovators come in many forms, but typical examples include:

• allowing customers to undertake a greater level of self-service
• facilitating greater levels of collaboration between your people, and between your people and your customers
• aggregating information from across your enterprise to achieve greater insight and value
• extending your processes beyond enterprise boundaries to encompass partners and suppliers

There is no doubt about the need for such innovators to support change. But how to support this change without radical upheaval of existing systems, and data. Unfortunately, like many of our clients, you are probably finding that your existing systems, whilst effective, act as a series of silos, unable to cope with the demands of supporting more seamless end-to-end processes, which increasingly demand higher levels of "zero-touch" and hence automation.

► Embracing Change

At Asidua we believe that seamless and automated processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications are themselves offering ever increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities is a considerable challenge to many organisations. Where enterprises are medium-to-large this benefit is amplified considerably, due to the overhead that can be generated in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. Conversely, embracing a wider integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised ADI to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.