Integration

Linking together databases and systems, like ordering and fulfilment, can bring significant cost savings and greater efficiency by reducing data entry and administrative work. Find out how integration could help you get even more out of your technology.

GUIDES

Integrating back office systems

Linking your back office and online systems together can make your business more efficient. A factsheet on what the benefits are and how to go about it.

Technology, customers and suppliers

This brochure covers business processes from development to final delivery and advises on how to improve each process by closer collaboration with supply chain partners. URN: 04/816

CASE STUDIES

A V Dawson

A V Dawson, a cargo handling firm, uses a Virtual Private Network as the foundation of a fully integrated company network.

Irishwear

An uninterrupted, fast connection enables online retailer Irishwear.net to improve customer service and gain major internal operating efficiencies.

Leisure Estates

Embracing e-business has allowed Leisure Estates International (LEI) to expand its offer and develop an unbranded affiliate package in parallel with its sophisticated consumer-facing brand strategy.

North Link Ferries

The company's ferries use mobile and wireless technology to transmit business critical information.

Rigibore

Rigibore's culture of innovation and its strategic approach to e-business gave it the confidence to replace industry standard technology and create its own integrated system to increase efficiency and improve information sharing.

USEFUL LINKS

Lear Corporation

Car seat manufacturer Lear Corporation made efficiency gains without major costs, through a low-cost e-scheduling solution.

Capitalising on convergence

The Capitalising on convergence workbook is a practical guide on using digital media to focus on your customers. It includes 28 in-depth case studies.

Video diaries

Find out how two businesses are integrating their computer systems, what's going well and what's not, by accessing our video diaries.

Further e-business information

An archive of information on using technology in your business.

Integrated business systems

A guide to how integrating your systems can help your business transform the way it works – cutting time and cost from its internal processes.

Web services

Find out how web services can help different computer systems running different software applications communicate with each other, improving the flow of information inside and between organisations.

E-business case studies

Practical examples of technology in action.