By integrating ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems with third-party software, you can increase the entire company’s effectiveness, efficiency, and profitability. It enables automatic data flow and gives access to new functionalities when done correctly. How will systems integration be conducted in 2022?
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What is the integration of IT systems?
Only some IT systems have all the tools that a company needs. In such a situation, it is possible to use two separate systems, thanks to their integration, to work synergistically.
System integration allows them to use their resources, including data or devices, mutually. As a result, they can fully utilize their technological potential.
Integration between systems can be unilateral or bilateral. One-way integration involves transferring data in only one direction, from one system to another. Two-way integration is comprehensive because it enables two-way data flow and mutual use of other resources. Data exchange can then take place automatically or on demand.
What to integrate the ERP system in 2022?
IT systems available to entrepreneurs in 2022 allow the use of many tools in the cloud and mobile devices. How to expand their capabilities thanks to integration?
The scope of integration of the ERP system, which is used to manage the company’s resources, should primarily be adapted to its requirements, including the specificity of the business.
Integrations with various external systems from other vendors are currently underway, for example:
- e-commerce systems for online stores, for example, used by online wholesalers
- external logistics systems, including courier companies
- POS systems used for stationary sales
- SCADA systems for supervision and management of production and technological processes
- MES class systems used for production
- government systems, for example, the National e-Invoice System, the Waste Database (BDO)
Integration of ERP systems – how to do it?
Integration of ERP systems in 2022 is easier than it was a decade ago.
Today, the integration of modern ERP IT systems takes place through the API (Application Programming Interface), i.e., application programming interface. APIs are modules that enable data exchange and define communication rules between systems. Thanks to this, data is transferred quickly and correctly, which prevents errors. This means that integration can be bilateral and automatic.
In the absence of communication using the API, integration is still possible. At the same time, data transfer is carried out mainly by exchanging files, for example, by sending them from one server to another.
For system integration to be effective, it is worth using the services of a company specializing in its implementation. Thanks to its knowledge and experience, it can select the scope and method of integration and then carry it out so that the cooperation between the systems is consistent and the effects are optimal.
More on the integration and robotization of business processes and Big Data services can be found on the Bluesoft website.
