The problem
The client's enterprise integration platform was four versions behind, yet it still ran the company's most critical transactions — including key financial ones. Point-to-point integrations kept multiplying and taxing the platform, and failures were happening more and more often. The integration team couldn't persuade management to fund an upgrade.
What we did
The point-to-point approach was the root of the scaling problem: every integration would have to be remediated for the planned upgrade and every one after it. A services-oriented approach — integrations built for reuse against industry standards — would be supported by the current version of the platform.
We built a business case that laid out the real risk to company transactions and the mounting cost of staying point-to-point, then showed how upgrading on a services-oriented model would cut those costs substantially while stabilizing the critical transactions.
The business case landed: an 18-month acceleration of the planned upgrade, a 3× increase in investment for data and system integration, and a 10% ROI in the first 8 weeks.