Cloud Integration Benefits
Top Business Benefits of Cloud B2B Integration
Multi-enterprise integration goes beyond easier collaboration and information exchange with strategic partners, customers or divisions. It brings real, measurable business impact, from improved customer loyalty and retention to significant growth in top-line revenue and bottom-line profits. Traditional integration solutions rarely bring the level of monetary ROI that cloud-based B2B integration delivered as a service provides. Add to that the typical low start-up costs and total cost of ownership inherent in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, which makes time to value substantially faster than with on-premise solutions.
The top 5 business benefits of cloud B2B integration delivered as a service are:
- Improved partner and customer relations and retention
- Increased revenue and margin
- Improved order accuracy
- Faster time to market
- Greater competitive advantage
Top IT Benefits of Cloud B2B Integration
For IT departments, integration too often equals pain. Traditional solutions are costly, require a specialized and expensive skill set from workers, and are prone to break at the slightest change in format or schema. Sometimes scalability is suspect or requires a huge investment in servers and database software. Maintaining integration through version upgrades or customization creates added work. Also, IT is usually under pressure from the business side to improve operations to help drive greater revenue or business impact, but rarely is given the additional resources to do so.
With B2B integration that leverages a cloud platform and managed services, these worries become things of the past, replaced by fixed costs, flexibility, and an easy path for growth and scalability, as well as a team of experts in integration, related technologies and community management.
The top 5 IT benefits of cloud B2B integration delivered as a service are:
- Reduced costs and capital expenditures (CapEx)
- Increased operational efficiencies and automation with fewer manual processes
- Extended investments in legacy applications and systems
- Aligning IT with business goals
- Scalability and flexibility