The business benefits of having an integrated IT ecosystem

Every day, customer demands and expectations rise to new heights, increasing the demand for digital and real-time services. As a result, modern businesses are keen on investing in digital transformation and business automation, which involves integrating various software solutions (SaaS) and cloud applications. By integrating these systems, businesses can digitalize and automate business processes across Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, HR, and all other departments. These integrated systems become integral parts of a business' IT ecosystem.

However, with each new software solution that a business integrates with, managing these connections and the resulting data exchange becomes more challenging. Without a proper platform to integrate all these systems, the benefits of digital transformation and business automation are overshadowed by a significant problem: an entangled IT ecosystem.

An entangled IT ecosystem consists of data silos and a jungle of crisscrossing data flows. It also involves many partially connected software solutions managed by multiple integration partners, overlapping and connecting disorganizedly. Because of the imagery that such an entangled ecosystem evokes, it is also known as an ‘IT Spaghetti ecosystem.’

Want to learn how Alumio can ensure an integrated IT ecosystem? Keep reading to find out the benefits and added value of Alumio to modern companies.

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The business benefits of integrating your IT ecosystem with Alumio

The Alumio integration platform helps businesses integrate systems, software solutions, and cloud applications across on-premise and cloud environments in a streamlined fashion, thus avoiding the tangling of IT ecosystems.

With Alumio, businesses have access to the following:

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Reduced TCO (Total Cost of Operations):

• Alumio makes integrations simple for developers and non-coding professionals, thus significantly reducing operational costs regarding hiring, outsourcing, and third-party dependency.
• The platform's Monitoring and Logging features help keep track of every process, data transfer, request, and change across all integration, instantly detecting any integration errors or API conflicts, which users can swiftly troubleshoot and resolve via an intuitive dashboard, saving significant time and labor costs.
• Alumio eliminates black boxes and budget overruns by making all integrations and data flows visible on one user-friendly interface, which developers, project managers, and business owners can understand and collaborate upon.

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Improved TTM (Time to Market):

• Alumio enables businesses to freely experiment with removing or exchanging a new solution without losing data integrity.
• Alumio's connector packages are an integration shortcut to help develop integrations significantly faster.
• The platform enables the automation of complex sequences of workflows, such as simultaneously sending real-time product stock updates from the ERP system to the e-commerce platform and PIM system.

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Increased ROI (Return on Investment):

• Alumio helps businesses skip the high costs, time, and risks involved in developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting internal integration solutions, often devours a business' ROI.
• With Alumio, businesses can avoid spending on platform security, updates, and compliance since the platform is constantly updated to meet evolving industry standards regarding performance and security. As such, Alumio guarantees the highest levels of data security, scalable infrastructure, and cloud space, saving businesses from investing resources in constantly improving or expanding such features. Furthermore, businesses stay compliant with crucial privacy legislations like GDPR, SOC2, CCPA, FERPA, HIPAA, and more, allowing businesses to prove how they track and manage customer data.
• Thanks to the platform's centralized view of all integrations and data, businesses can get 360-degree data insights, identifying where they are losing money and what touchpoints need to be improved. This includes tracking overall customer engagement and identifying process inefficiencies. These insights can be used to optimize the targeting of marketing activities; ad spends, and budgets for business improvements.

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When it's all said and done…With Alumio, businesses can enjoy a fully untangled and integrated IT ecosystem that can accommodate digital transformation and growth.

Alumio empowers businesses to create their first software integrations, and complex omnichannel experiences, upgrade or migrate old system integrations quickly, and integrate new software solutions and applications to improve digital growth.

In this way, Alumio helps businesses hit the ground running with their digital transformation journey by providing a ready-to-use integration platform to fulfill all software integration needs, helping them connect software solutions for business automation quickly and flexibly. And, most importantly, at predictable prices.

…If you'd like to get a complete explanation of the business benefits of Alumio, read our white paper on "The Cost Optimization Benefits of the Alumio platform.”