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5 Good Reasons Integrating your Systems

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The need for data integration isn't always obvious - especially when you as a business manager, IT manager or even an employee responsible for a business area such as accounting, sales or logistics - are too busy and occupied with trying to make the business prosper.

But having e.g. one accounting system for your financial data and another system for your customer relations or even when you are in retail you have a system for warehousing "living each their own life" is not really useful to a company.

In order to gain an overview from a Business Perspective you need to bind the systems together. But why choose RapidiOnline? Here are 5 good reasons...

Make the vision of a fully integrated business come true

The typical scenario for our customers is that their data is scattered within the company in various systems. The employees spent a lot of time searching for the right information and the finally found they try to make sense of the data in order to get an overview of the Business.

Having data accessible to the relevant people at the right time makes it possible for the employees to get real-time access and an up-to-date overview of the data. The fully integrated business or warehouse solution facilitates reporting and analysing the data as the transferred data now is accessible in the system the employees use for making the reports and statistics.

Minimal implementation time - maximal cost effectiveness

If you are getting started with e.g. salesforce.com you can jump-start your integration project by using RapidiOnline for the initial population of data in salesforce.com. Using RapidiOnline as a "data loader" will be much easier and quicker than having to use e.g. an excel data import function.

With our pre-built integration solutions, you don't have to reinvent the wheel, as we already have made it easy for you by providing an out-of-the-box solution already pre-configured with the most highly desired integration points. This will allow you to get started quickly and extend or customise your integration setup, if you have specific needs.

The pre-configurations help you to shorten the implementation time significantly. All in all a normal integration project using RapidiOnline typical stretch between 10 and 20 hours. After that you should be up and running with a powerful and stable integration between your systems - saving you time and resources.

Not a tool - but a solution ready to use

Ok fine, you decided that a link between your systems is vital. The next challenge faces you: How do we do it? We don't want to spent months and months and a lot of resources into the integration project. We would prefer it to be done pretty quickly - let's say; within 1-2 weeks time - and in an smooth and uncomplicated way. That's where RapidiOnline will be an appropriate match for your integration project, as we can help you speed up the integration project and make it less complicated by providing you with an integration solution, that already is setup with the most common integration points many companies need and ask for.

Expertise and Support

It's always best to illustrate a notion by telling customer stories. At our customer Kimberley Group they already had MS Dynamics NAV in use as their ERP and Manufacturing system. They had decided to use salesforce.com as the front-end towards their dealers and to handle all CRM functionality. After some investigation in search for the right integration partner Bruce Loxton, Managing Director of Kimberley Group, found that RapidiOnline certainly could deliver the solution to integrate the systems. Not only because he found out that RapidiOnline has a vast knowledge and expertise in integrating MS Dynamics NAV and other system from way back when MS Dynamics NAV (Navision) just started. In addition to that RapidiOnline also have a vast experience in designing integrated business processes that Kimberley could leverage.

Control and flexibility

For IMAN Cosmetics, it was vital that they would be in control of the data and that they had the ability to manage their data themselves. Furthermore they want-ed to be able to create reports and analyze their data themselves which required that they have all their transactional data accessible in their local MS Dynamics NAV.