Building Composite Applications to
Increase Efficiency and Responsiveness

Most businesses’ IT systems have grown organically, focused on performing discrete functions such as ERP, CRM or logistics—in short, they are a loose collection of siloed applications. But today’s market environment is more dynamic, and more complex than when these systems were built. Employees need to interface with multiple applications and connect with people across the organization in order to satisfy customer needs. A real time, end-to-end view of the business is needed to respond quickly to changing market conditions. In order for this to happen, the systems supporting the business need to become more agile.

Siloed applications simply can’t respond to those needs efficiently or effectively. Trying to change each of them can be costly and time consuming, often requiring considerable staff resources.

A solution is to use a Composite Applications (CA) approach. A CA is built by combining multiple services, using functionality drawn from several different sources within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Users have seamless access to formerly segregated functions. What’s more, CAs can be developed using a firm’s existing legacy systems. The silos can be broken down using modern CA techniques so that your existing system infrastructure investment can be preserved while your systems responsiveness and flexibility is improved. You can improve performance while increasing ROI.

The following diagram illustrates a sample enterprise CA architecture:

Network Effects uses the latest CA methodologies to build more agile business models, improving ROI on your systems infrastructure investment.

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