Corporate Technologies’ professional services organization delivers a wide variety of integration solutions—from Web services through business intelligence—using our four-phase engagement model.

Architect
Before designing any data integration solution, Corporate Technologies works closely with each client to develop an optimum integration blueprint that satisfies their unique needs. We start by completely analyzing business requirements to ensure any integration solution we recommend perfectly matches your needs—whether it involves new applications that require integration with existing systems, or multiple data sources that must be integrated to improve business processing.

If, for example, you are adding new business activities, we can use portals to provide new transaction and information access capabilities. If you need more efficient business processes, we can employ Web services to integrate your systems—providing employees, customers, and suppliers with the unique “view” of business activities within your company that they require. If you need more enhanced decision-making, we can leverage datamarts to integrate and report business information—allowing line managers to make better day-to-day decisions and giving business managers the analytics they need to make better strategic assessments.

Corporate Technologies also takes your existing IT infrastructure into account.
We are sensitive your need for processing different types of data in different cycles, and not integrating data until it is ready for consumption. We routinely watch out for unique legacy software to ensure it poses no interference with specific client integration needs.

And because our professional services team takes a holistic view of your entire enterprise, you get both state-of-the-art data integration and a solution that accommodates the complexities of security, operating systems, storage, and licensing.

Integrate
The Corporate Technologies professional services team does not stop with the architectural design of best-practice integration solutions. Before we implement a new solution into your production environment, we bring all the components of your integration solution together in our unique Interoperability Lab to ensure we meet all goals established in the architectural phase. Only then do we implement the new integration solution into your existing infrastructure. To ensure that the integration goes smoothly, the engineers responsible for testing the solution in our Lab integrate the solution in the field.

Because we are sensitive to both your IT assets and business goals, our integration always takes each into account. For example, we enabled an outsourced warehouse function supporting a major food distributor’s customers, which included some of the world’s largest food producers. Our implementation successfully addressed several extremely complex IT challenges, including integration of unique data formats for each company’s multiple order processing and warehouse management applications, plus real-time reporting of order and delivery status via a Web portal.

Optimize
Corporate Technologies ensures optimization of your data integration on several levels. If you need to improve business performance by exploiting information trapped in disparate functional systems, we can help. Our expert professional services engineers can the eliminate isolated data silos by processing, translating, presenting and exchanging information across them, even when they involve totally different data formats, servers, operating systems, and application software.

We also ensure that your integration solutions are optimized so they can be sustained—either by your IT group or our professional services. Because any integration solution we design incorporates best practices, we readily accommodate all your important upgrades.

Support
Corporate Technologies’ professional services team provides comprehensive support throughout the client engagement, from architecting a data integration solution through optimization.

We are highly knowledgeable about how integration products work in a wide variety of production environments, and can provide clients with advanced project management skills. Corporate Technologies routinely project-manages multimillion-dollar engagements to ensure that our solutions meet agreed-to time, budget, and business requirements.

At the end of an engagement, we collaborate with our client’s IT staff to ensure full knowledge transfer, supported by excellent and comprehensive documentation. Post-engagement, we remain fully available on a consulting basis, whether to answer routine questions or advise on integration upgrades and updates.