{"id":427296,"date":"2020-08-20T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=427296"},"modified":"2020-08-20T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T08:23:55","slug":"how-sxis-streamlined-digital-data-integration-can-save-your-business-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/427296\/how-sxis-streamlined-digital-data-integration-can-save-your-business-money\/","title":{"rendered":"How SXI&#8217;s streamlined digital data integration can save your business money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital agility will be a key differentiator for successful businesses in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.information-age.com\/digital-transformation-spend-increase-during-pandemic-ifs-study-123490111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>research study<\/strong><\/a> by software giant Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS), which found that most businesses will increase their spending on digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p>These plans align closely with concerns about macro-economic conditions disrupting businesses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxi.co.za\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_campaign=SXI&amp;utm_term=July_2020#home-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to learn more about SXI\u2019s data and systems integration solutions.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The effective integration of data and systems is the foundation of optimal digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Your business needs to connect its data, applications, and devices in order to achieve its digitisation goals.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t align and modernise cloud, API, and B2B technologies from the start of your journey, it will result in more complexity and greater costs later on.<\/p>\n<p>API-driven strategies also enable your business to be more agile, cost-effective and innovative.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The challenges to integration<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Integrating data and systems can be a complex process, however, involving many different parts of the business.<\/p>\n<p>Digital integration solutions often come at high or variable costs, further complicating management\u2019s decisions on its preferred route.<\/p>\n<p>Without the development of a proper strategy, businesses regularly opt for custom in-house, hard coded integrations which may over time become brittle and difficult to manage once the broader environment scales up.<\/p>\n<p>This can have the potential to seriously restrict the business\u2019s ability to quickly adapt to changes in their industry or business model.<\/p>\n<p>Many companies also neglect to take the necessary incremental, scale-up approach to integration, while often the incorrect resources are assigned to the project, costing companies time, money, and efficiency.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Get the specialists &#8211; SXI<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To navigate and help you overcome these challenges, your business should consult an experienced data and systems integration specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are looking for an on-premise, cloud or hybrid solution, SXI are experts in this field and offer businesses a truly complete integration solution from start to support.<\/p>\n<p>This provides their clients with agile, efficient, and cost-effective solutions to complex integration requirements from a single central strategy.<\/p>\n<p>SXI offers configuration-based integration solutions, as opposed to traditional hard-coded integrations.<\/p>\n<p>Its solutions care for any type of business transactions and workflows in all sectors, including financial, industrial, ERP, CRM, analytics, IT management and infrastructure, and more.<\/p>\n<p>It also offers its innovative integration platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxi.co.za\/#xlayer-section?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_campaign=SXI&amp;utm_term=July_2020#home-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>XLayer<\/strong><\/a>, an advanced data and system integration hub which enables your business to connect, change, and integrate data swiftly without expensive software deployment or coding.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Service Desk and IT Service Management integrations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>SXI has a specialised solution for large and complex service desk and IT service management integrations.<\/p>\n<p>The solution enables the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrate multiple-diverse service desks between various businesses to automate complex transactions, such as in incident or ticket management, as well as with problem, request and change management transactions.<\/li>\n<li>Integrate all your critical diverse event monitoring applications to your Service Desk or Central Event Management application.<\/li>\n<li>Integrate real-time changes from IT inventory and asset management applications to your configuration management database (CMDB).<\/li>\n<li>Achieve CMDB synchronisation across multiple CMDBs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Experience and certification<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>SXI\u2019s 20 years of experience in providing valuable and effective solutions has provided many of South Africa\u2019s top 100 companies with a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also a registered Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner and possesses the relevant AWS certifications to implement its leading cloud solutions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxi.co.za\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_campaign=SXI&amp;utm_term=July_2020#home-section\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to start your digital integration journey with SXI.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The successful digital transformation of businesses requires an effective integration solution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":427298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[15214],"class_list":["post-427296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-sxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427300,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427296\/revisions\/427300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}