Data Integration Services

How can Comma’s Data Integration Services help?

Comma understand that a successful data integration strategy isn’t just about the choice of integration technology – it’s about how you use it. Our approach focuses on:

Understanding and describing your business data

• Enable rapid integration development – no need to deeply analyse existing systems and processes when a new integration is needed.
• Reduce time taken to define data transformation, with a deeper understanding of your data and data contracts between services.
• Underpin integration with our expertise in data governance and metadata management

Choosing the right approach for each integration scenario

• Discover the integration styles and approaches that are right for your business.

• Cut through the buzzword bingo and technology trends to deliver data integration solutions that work and will continue to serve you for the long term.
• Select, evaluate and combine best-in-class data integration tools to deliver your strategy.

Ensuring your integration platform is robust and resilient (whatever components this comprises)

• Understand the need for reliability, resilience and recoverability
• Determine an appropriate strategy and approach, focusing on the business outcomes you are trying to achieve.

Ensuring your integrations are managed and governed

• Deliver a framework that can cope with new additions, changes and adaptions to an ever-changing environment

What we do (Building blocks for success)

Business outcomes should always be at the forefront of your data integration strategy. To achieve those business goals, understanding your business data is absolutely crucial. We base our integration approach on the same fundamental building blocks as we do for data management.

1. Vision

What are you trying to achieve as a business? We can help you formulate an integration vision based on business outcomes that are important to you, now and in future.

2. Strategy

What steps do you need to reach that goal, starting today? By starting small and delivering value quickly, we ensure that high priority business needs are met, whilst establishing a platform and operating model that supports your ongoing integration needs.

3. Governance

Defining ownership of the definitions of your integrations, APIs and data contracts – along with the management of ongoing change and adaptation – is crucial to your integration strategy. You can have the best technical solution, but if it isn’t understood, managed and governed then it can rapidly become a hindrance to business agility.

4. Organisation

How will integrations be managed and supported? Who within, or outside, of the business will be responsible and accountable? What skillsets do you need in house and externally? We help define operating models that get the best from your skills and ours and set you up to be self-sufficient.

5. Process

Understanding the business processes that your integration supports is crucial in choosing the right solution and approach. We’re not just technology experts at Comma – we immerse our teams within your own to truly understand your processes and the role of integration within them.

6. Performance Metrics

How will we know if we’ve been successful? Ultimately, we need to be sure that we’re achieving the business outcomes we set out to. In integration, resilience, failure tolerance and recoverability are crucial. We help you understand and map performance KPIs, from business outcome down to technical metrics.

7. Technology

What is the right technology solution, or solutions, to meet your business needs? The integration software market is a rapidly moving one, littered with new, disruptive technologies alongside more traditional vendors. By understanding your vision and the processes you need to support, we help cut through the noise and make the right choices.

8. And not forgetting... Data