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Simplifying integration to create business value

Commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) is a term for software or hardware, generally technology or computer products, that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. A major challenge related to COTS implementation is the smooth integration of its business functionality into those of other existing applications. Surveys have shown that IT organizations spend significant amounts of time and money on integration of new COTS applications with existing applications and other enterprise software packages.

Ensuring that the money invested on a new COTS package is well spent, depends on its ability to integrate. Working well with sophisticated architectural environments, with legacy systems and complex dependencies requires planning, knowledge and skilled resources. eCube offer customers a comprehensive solution..


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Losing Valuable Assets

All commercial COTS packages have to be customized to integrate with other systems within the organization. There are several well-know challenges. What segments of the code are redundant? How well has the documentation been maintained over the years? Whether the goal is to replace the system with a new COTS package or build a new solution, every company has to deal with issues that challenge their understanding of the applications, such as:

  • Vendor mergers, acquisitions and the product life-cycles
  • Customizations done by 3rd party consultants and contractors
  • Retirement of key employees
  • Complexity

eCube helps companies overcome these issue and retrieve the value looked on legacy COTS assets. Using leading edge technology, industry standards and best practices you can be confident in the legacy COTS recovery services provided by eCube systems.

Features

The eCube COTS Integration offering provides:

  • Business and IT near-term and long-term requirements, strategy and related plans for COTS integration
  • Documentation of the business architecture that drives (and relies on) the existing application that will have to be transformed in a COTS integration
  • Definition of interfaces between the existing application and external environments that need to be integrated with the COTS application
  • Business requirements and specifics information about the application environment and their related impact on COTS integration into the IT architecture

 

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Contact us for a free evaluation to see if these services will provide you with the benefits and cost savings you need. Our analysts will work with you to develop a Return on Investment (ROI) calculation that accurately reflects your situation and the various solution scenarios possible.

With this analysis, which establishes ROI, Total Cost of Ownership and other values, you will be able to understand what the best solution is for you and what it is worth to your business in real dollars. If the numbers are compelling, we'll work with you to further define what the right solution looks like and to develop a plan that reflects your needs, benefits and the returns required. Call us to schedule some time with an analyst.