Application Integration

Synchronizing Business Processes

Businesses are out of step with each other. Departments are poorly connected. Information accuracy is suspect, and people are making decisions in a vacuum. The flow of information and data that supports business decisions is  interrupted. 

The goal of application integration should be to synchronize processes, eliminate redundant actions, and fix the breaks in the flow of the business.

Ceiba Solutions meets the challenges of extending business processes to support the enterprise with:

  • Agile Development Methodology
  • Application and Data Mapping Middleware
  • Open Standards Technology


Ceiba Agile Methodology

Ceiba Solutions brings together business and IT people into a collaborative process, using a unique method for defining and refining the business and its application integration requirements.

Ceiba Agile deals with organizational differences, bringing people across the enterprise into an interactive process with developers. The resulting solution:

  • Taps the knowledge and experience of users
  • Supports the way people and the business actually operate
  • Builds on the idea of incremental change


Application and Data Mapping Middleware

The Ceiba Data Integrator is a rules-based, application integration software product that maps different applications into one, synchronized business process, regardless of their base technology, programming language, data sources or network location.

Major Features:

  • Connects with legacy & custom apps
  • Transforms app data into a common structure
  • Polls for changes in data
  • Connecting to Web Services
  • Synchronizes multiple apps across a common business process
  • Uses tables of reference values & definitions to manage complexity
  • Monitors all events & actions across apps
  • Posts notifications of successful & failed events


Open Standards Technology

Ceiba Solutions provides a set of basic building blocks that are based on Open Standards. These include:

  • Application Server
  • BPEL (Business Process Execution Language)
  • BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
  • Security
  • Human Workflow


Result: Incremental change rather than a major overhaul

Ceiba recommends incremental change over long and difficult projects that force people to identify and agree on every conceivable new requirement before beginning. Using Ceiba’s Agile Methodology and supporting software, everyone has visibility into the process, results come quickly, and changes do not jeopardize the entire project.