Integration governance
A center of excellence to govern every integration.
Together with a consulting partner, we designed for a multinational industrial group the center of excellence that governs how its applications are integrated.
The challenge
Every area integrated its applications its own way. With no clear roles or shared criteria, every integration decision was a risk and every project started from scratch.
What we did
We analysed the current state (AS-IS), designed the target (TO-BE) and left the client with an Integration Center of Excellence (ICoE):
- Its organisational structure and the roles that decide.
- All its activities and processes, to run every integration in a standard way: patterns, non-functional requirements and templates.
- How to start running it on the profiles and knowledge already in the company, and which profiles it would need.
- A strategy to approach every integration project in the most suitable way.
- The process and controls of the development lifecycle, and a model to assess vendors.
All in three stages: definition (three weeks), implementation (four) and execution (four).
The outcome
An ICoE ready to start running, with clear roles and responsibilities, less risk in every decision and integration criteria standardised across the group.