Our Global Enterprise Integration Practice designs, builds, implements, and supports enterprise IT architectures. We integrate data, processes, and applications to deliver fully functional solutions tailored to your business needs. Our best-of-breed tools, methods, best practices, and skilled resources in enterprise architecture, enterprise information management, and process integration can transform your raw data into actionable business information.

Comprehensive Capabilities Drive Business Results

CIBER has a wide range of capabilities and services to meet your current and future enterprise integration needs, such as:

Enterprise Architecture: The description of the current and/or future structure and behavior of an organization's processes, information systems, personnel and organizational sub-units, aligned with the organization’s core goals and strategic direction.

Process Integration: The set of broad spectrum processes that govern the organization, integrated systems, and architecture that comprise business systems as well as IT projects.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM): The broad spectrum of technologies and best practices encompassing business intelligence, data warehousing, and data integration.

Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture is at the heart of any enterprise strategy. It provides the supporting systems to further business strategy. To fully use current and future technology, your enterprise architecture must be stable, consistent, accessible, and aligned to the business.

CIBER’s team of experts designs best practices-based, service-oriented, component-based architectures that can be reused across multiple business processes and applications. This allows for flexibility and adaptability to market dynamics, and enables more efficient replacement and integration of application components.

We work with you to ensure that your enterprise architecture and developed applications satisfy business needs. An architecture or integration solution that doesn’t incorporate your key data, applications and business processes isn’t really a solution.

Process Integration

Process integration capabilities, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA), are not a technology; rather, they are a method of conceptualizing, designing, and implementing business software applications and infrastructure. Process integration incorporates centralized and disciplined enforcement of industry standards, assembly of reusable autonomous business functions (also called “services”), and loosely coupled connections between services.

Process integration capabilities, including SOA, benefit your business by extending the functionality and life of existing IT assets, reducing architectural complexity, decreasing duplication of services and data, and increasing business flexibility and agility in responding to market changes.

But process integration also places important demands on the enterprise to adjust organizationally, behaviorally, and culturally.

CIBER has developed a comprehensive methodology and toolset based on industry best practices and our experience to ensure that SOA is effectively developed and deployed in close coordination with the business imperatives that drive your enterprise.

Process integration lets you mold IT around the needs of the business, instead of molding the business around the needs of IT.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

EIM is not a technology or a product, but rather a continuous process for organizing, structuring, and managing your organization’s information assets, independent of technology platform or organizational structure.

EIM’s objective is to integrate business goals with technology, so you can manage data to simplify business processes, increase productivity, and enhance adaptability.

There are many components or initiatives you can implement to achieve EIM, including business intelligence, data warehousing, data governance, and data integration activities. An integral piece of a successful EIM process is business intelligence (BI).

Business Intelligence: Transforming Raw Data into Actionable Business Information

“Business intelligence” refers to a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, accessing, and analyzing data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.

A business intelligence initiative can help your organization create an infrastructure to transform raw data into useful business information so you can monitor the marketplace and measure company performance.

For instance, a BI initiative often takes the shape of just-in-time reporting, web-based portals, or executive dashboards. These all provide secure access for authorized individuals to view a wealth of information, both visually and according to specification.

Business intelligence systems combined with enterprise information management initiatives can help transform your operational system data into an analytical system data structure that supports your business needs. This structure enables business executives to obtain a historical view of operational data, thus reducing the burden on your IT resources, and enabling executives to make proactive decisions instead of reactive ones.

How Can CIBER Help Your Organization?

Having assisted numerous clients in a vast range of industries, CIBER offers clients the following services.

Discovery

The discovery is a short-term, yet high-impact initiative to capture your organization’s current state of affairs. Starting with a one- or two-day visit to your site, we obtain a “snapshot” of your organization’s current IT position by collecting and analyzing system-level documentation, business objectives, and vision and mission statements.

We interview key individuals and conduct group analysis to identify your business drivers and IT requirements. We strive to understand how the system currently meets or misses business needs based on our experience and industry examples.

We then go off-site to analyze the data, meeting with you again approximately two weeks later with recommendations on how you can narrow the gap between current and desired IT states.

Assessment/Roadmap

An assessment requires more rigorous information gathering than a discovery session, and offers more comprehensive analysis of your organization and enterprise architecture as a result.

We interview key IT and business stakeholders, review documentation, and conduct group analysis sessions to identify your business drivers and IT requirements. We strive to understand how your current system meets or misses your current and future business objectives.

We assess the current state and help develop the future state of your enterprise integration architecture and compare that to industry examples for information management. From that we prepare a gap analysis, which identifies high-level critical requirements and priorities to determine the best way to move from the current state to a tactical and strategic future state.

CIBER can also evaluate and recommend technology and its components, assist with return-on-investment (ROI) calculations, and contribute to building a business case to present to executive management or the board of directors.

The end result is an overall strategic enterprise “roadmap” that describes the scope of the effort, identifies discrete tasks and projects to undertake, denotes timelines and deliverables to incrementally implement an enterprise integration program.

Development

Experts from our Global Enterprise Integration Practice and our local branch office take the results of the roadmap and work with you to design, build, and launch your enterprise integration initiative using our proven methodologies. This involves the collaboration of CIBER’s technology, people, and processes with yours in a continuous initiative of process improvement.

Our proven, disciplined processes enable us to achieve project goals on time and on budget, allowing us to focus on driving costs and delays out of the process, so we can drive quality into it. We’ll work with an eye toward measurable business results: cost containment, faster time-to-market, and minimized risk.

Support

CIBER views every client engagement as a relationship, not a transaction. We work with you to ensure that your system performs as expected, providing knowledge transfer to your team members so they can address issues as they arise. By nurturing independence while promoting project success, we offer you a smooth transition to the new system, yet we’re available whenever you need our assistance.

Trust Your Business Data With CIBER, the Business-Focused Consultants

For more than 30 years, CIBER, Inc. has helped businesses and government entities build, integrate, and support their mission-critical business systems. Mid-market and Fortune 1000 organizations turn to CIBER to find ways to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and streamline business operations.

CIBER’s renowned subject matter experts demonstrate industry thought-leadership through our participation in industry groups, such as DAMA (Data Management Association), TDWI, and OMG, and through authorship of numerous articles, white papers, and books about business intelligence, data warehousing, data governance, enterprise architecture, and other prevalent IT topics.

We utilize a proven approach that is cost-effective and produces highly scalable and repeatable solutions. We overcome risks and hurdles with targeted planning, unique solutions, and highly skilled and respected resources.

Why CIBER?

With more than 90 offices worldwide, including 60 offices in the U.S., CIBER has the global resources of an international firm, while offering the local accountability and relationship management of a local partnership. We provide technical, business, and industry expertise, but remain technology-agnostic. At the same time, we maintain strong partnerships with leading technology companies, such as SAP, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Lawson, so we are current on their technological developments and have colleagues to partner with when a challenge necessitates it.

CIBER is included in the niche quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Services, North America, 2007 (published 3/13/07).

In addition, CIBER has been rated the 8th best global IT outsourcer by the Brown-Wilson Group, author of The Black Book of Outsourcing, which surveyed and compiled responses from 18,000 business decision-makers regarding their experiences with outsourcing firms.

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