Microsoft Integration and Application Platform

Creating a solid foundation for growth

Creating a well-run environment across your organisation requires using the best-in-breed of applications and also having the ability to fit them together in a practical, well-managed way. Implementing such a system landscape can give you increased visibility and insights into what is really going on in your business.

The Microsoft Application Platform provides a cost-effective way of building a robust and agile IT infrastructure which allows you to spend more time adding value to your organisation and less time managing issues. By using this kind of platform, your business can get more value from existing applications and create new, flexible applications which are able to meet your changing business needs.

With the Microsoft Application Platform, you can cherry-pick the application tools which are the most relevant to your organisation and introduce an economical way of integrating and managing your processes, without being locked into using a certain product for every area of your business.

Providing the entire platform from a single vendor, the Microsoft Application Platform gives your business clear advantages in terms of common skills, approach, governance and architecture and economy of scale.

Focused on high-availability, disaster recovery, business continuity and operability, the Microsoft Application Platform offers a business-centred and high-value approach to IT.

Microsoft Integration: A broad architectural offering

Every business needs to work at its optimum performance level in order keep on driving customer retention and increasing sales. The Integration and Application Platform team can help your organisation to achieve this by supporting and promoting effective IT practices and providing Master Data Management of customer, prospect and other stakeholder interactions.

The Integration and Application Platform team provides a broad architectural offering which is designed to enable you to get the most out of your business investments in the Microsoft Application Platform. The team brings together SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk Server, Azure and Windows Server to produce a resilient, cost effective basis for your solutions. 

With the most relevant applications, integrated in the correct way, you have the ability to delve right down into your organisation and gain deeper market intelligence and business insights across each of its different practices.

By having a good understanding of what your business is doing ‘in the here and now' and being able to predict what kind of impact this will have on your IT agility; you can offer the right support to grow your business in the current market and tap potential new business opportunities to expand into new markets.

Applying this kind of well-functioning, heterogeneous IT landscape to a business means you can also improve the quantity and quality of your customer base with better profiling of customers, enhanced customer experience and increased retention.

Take a look at our recent examples of Integration and Application Platform:

• Mitchells and Butlers
• Compass Point Business Services

The Benefits of Integration and Application Platform

Integration and Application Platform provide a wide range of benefits including, enterprise scalability and easy interoperability to existing applications and databases.

A broad offering which takes full advantage of the Microsoft Application Platform, the Integration and Application Platform team can help your business generate maximum value for IT spend and amplify value from existing investments.

Hitachi Consulting's dedicated team of architects and developers have a broad palette of experience which covers architectural capability with the whole application platform technology set including SharePoint, Windows, BizTalk, SQ and BI.

Hitachi Consulting can help you to achieve the desired return on investment from the solution. Our consultants bring years of experience to help your organisation accelerate implementation, best practices and avoid common pitfalls.