Companies
today require business solutions that integrate e-commerce and other emerging
technologies with existing back-office and legacy systems. Rockwell's experience
and expertise across both, allow clients a single source for completely integrated
enterprise-wide solutions, to help minimize investment in technology products,
skills, tools, and infrastructure needed to continuously enhance and maintain
enterprise solution portfolios. Rockwell develops and implements integrated
enterprise solutions that optimize existing systems while ensuring that clients
use emerging technologies to maximize the business advantage from the Internet
and developments in technology/communication.
Globalization
also increases the difficulty of making decisions. Processing material and
information in modern, global enterprises is very different from the traditional,
vertically integrated businesses. Global companies of all sizes must transcend
geographical, functional and enterprise boundaries to include suppliers and
customers. For instance, a business must be able to optimize across geographies,
plants, shipping costs, labor, tariffs and more to determine which plant should
fulfill a customer order.
Rockwell Enterprise Application Integration solutions includes :
ERP Integration: ERP applications
are often seen as an effective route to business integration.
However, a lot of ERP implementations have been inward
focussed - that is emphasising cost reductions, technology and process
improvements versus customers and suppliers. Hence, there is a shift
away from reliance on a single enterprise application toward the integration
of best of breed applications provided by different vendors. The
challenge is in how to do it most effectively.
CRM Integration: Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) solutions help to consolidate
all customer data so that a unified view of customers
is obtained. Customer information, which exists in various systems,
can be captured through different business processes, touch points
and channels. It is imperative that all these systems are integrated
and E.A.I plays a very key role is achieving this objective. * Supply
Chain Integration: The key to an effective supply chain is tight integration
of the different businesses that make it up. Distributors, retailers,
producers, shippers etc all need accurate information. The IT systems
that they use are not uniform and are not designed to work together.
Integrating these systems is vital to reducing costs and improving
turnaround.
Legacy Systems Integration:
A lot of businesses have to cope with having to ensure
that legacy systems are not left isolated. Scrapping all legacy
systems and building a new total structure may be beyond the resources
of most organisations. The challenge is to integrate legacy systems
with new enterprise applications.
