System Integration is Vital for Application and Data-Management Efficiency

What you’ll learn:

• How integration of data and systems help enterprises achieve IT success.
• Why cloud integration is a key strategy among many businesses.  
• How does data integration streamline complex on-premises and cloud server ecosystems?
• How can healthcare providers benefit from efficient system integration?

With exponentially rising volumes of data generated every hour on the hour, system integration could well be the key to IT success for most modern companies. However, efficient system integration remains one of the major technology obstacles for many of these enterprises.   

Today, a single business can have a number of different high-tech systems or platforms. These include email and instant-messaging tools, mobile applications, analytics and metrics platforms, cloud-based databases and data lakes, web-based software portals, accounting software, and custom or industry-specific enterprise software solutions. This is where system integration becomes an indispensable tool.

The increase in organizational and consumer data will continue to drive the need for reliable system-integration solutions, which will be further amplified by the increasing adoption rate of cloud computing. In 2020, more than 83% of enterprise workloads were in the cloud, and it’s estimated that the shift to the cloud could affect over $1.3 trillion (U.S.) in IT spending by 2022, according to Gartner.

Powered by the ongoing shift toward automation technologies and the rapid growth of small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), the global system-integration market size could be well over $575 billion (U.S.) by the end of 2027. Accenture PLC, Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., Deloitte, HCL Technologies Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., IBM Corp., and Oracle Corp. are among the top vendors in the market at present.

How is Cloud Integration Fueling Growth in the Infrastructure Integration Space?

The way businesses design their IT infrastructure and their ability to integrate it with the latest set of tools, which are required to keep workflows running efficiently, plays a crucial role in their success. An integrated infrastructure seamlessly connects with the entire ecosystem of tools required for the deployment and management of different applications.

Cloud integration is one of the most fruitful ways to integrate IT infrastructure. It enables enterprises to have fast and reliable data synchronization, eliminating redundant data and improving operational efficiency. With benefits like these, it’s no wonder cloud integration is emerging as the next big thing in the infrastructure integration space.

Providers of cloud integration tools are constantly developing new solutions to help keep up with the growing market demand. SMEs will likely be among the leading adopters of these solutions in the future.

In September 2020, data-virtualization solutions provider Denodo launched its Denodo Platform version 8.0, which helps businesses accelerate hybrid and multi-cloud integration, boost performance with smart query acceleration, and automate data management using AI and machine learning.

Why Will Data Integration be an Important Component of App Deployment?

Application integration has been getting lots of traction as it enables free access to, and flow of, information across platforms in an agile and secure manner. It also streamlines the complex on-premises and cloud server ecosystems, a key step in the deployment of technology for an agile IT infrastructure.

Businesses that can derive insights and value from data will have a strong competitive advantage in today’s marketplace. Considering the increasing use of automation technologies and the rising volumes of data generated, data-integration services will likely be in demand over the course of the next few years. In anticipation of this surge, the development of novel data-integration solutions has become a top priority among market players.

In March 2021, for instance, TripActions rolled out its first ever set of API-based data-integration tools in a bid to help corporate clients import travel and spending data into other systems faster and more easily.  

How Can System Integration Help Healthcare Systems Deliver Better Patient Care?

The integration of healthcare systems such as electronic practice management (EPM), patient administration systems (PAS), laboratory information systems (LIS), and automating the flow of information can help healthcare providers deliver best-quality patient care. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has essentially underscored the need for improved integration of data and systems to improve patient management.

According to a 2019 survey, system integration across the healthcare sector was identified as one of the top IT challenges for healthcare financial executives. Besides new public health challenges amid the pandemic, the adoption of new delivery models by healthcare providers have highlighted the need for better data integration to deliver care for chronic conditions.

For example, the adoption of telehealth platforms increased considerably during 2020. But again, applications, devices, sensors, and tools are generally deployed on multiple data platforms, making it difficult for providers to effectively integrate data.

Therefore, it’s critical to integrate disparate data types from multiple sources and domains to coordinate an effective response, something that has been a longstanding challenge in healthcare. As the healthcare sector continues to respond to COVID-19 and prepares for any upcoming crisis, the demand for new, robust, and more advanced system-integration tools will keep ramping up.