You've taken ten minutes out from fire fighting to write down your short term ‘to-do’ list. Seems like everyone in this organisation has a task for you? That's because they all do!
Compliance need their new regulation issues addressed. Your colleagues in Sales & Marketing are screaming for more web development and their WAP project has never got out of your in-tray. What's involved in realising their one-to-one marketing plans makes you feel queasy. The Oracle, SAP and IBM guys need money for upgrades and patches, and the programmers and developers ‘just can't work with this code any longer’. Meanwhile, there's still your every day users and all their problems. It's all in a day's work.
Even if you could schedule all the work, even if the Board would sanction the costs, the IT infrastructure simply could not cope. Talk about a rock and a hard place!
Eventually, you arrive at a place where there really is no choice. You arrive at a point in time where your confidence that systems will operate resiliently has completely evaporated. The quick fixes and work-arounds that you've put in place against your better judgement have to give way to a strategic, business process driven review of the architecture. The business cannot go on losing control to its own outmoded IT and the proliferating number of 3rd parties who are managing key parts of your enterprise.
With eXii, you can have technology that delivers flexible, scalable and robust architecture – engineered for your needs today but so flexible that it can handle tomorrow too. And you can have it fast. And the Board will appreciate the extent and speed of the ROI.
The good news is that you don't have to pitch business process re-engineering at your Board. So how does eXii deliver the shiny new system you need, at a speed which you can manage and at a cost your Board will appreciate?
If you're anything like the norm, you have silo systems serving the many disparate parts of your business. You have false integration layers (like CRM) riveted onto the front to give the illusion of consistency and you have several different platforms left over from mergers and acquisitions, failed development projects and quick fixes all struggling to communicate in a bizarre IT tower of Babel.
Our solution involves placing an eXii engine at the heart of your IT, configuring it to manage traffic to and from your legacy systems. All new systems and development is eXii technology and a phased, manageable programme of migration from legacy to eXii commences. Since eXii is cheaper to adopt than legacy is to maintain (in the vast majority of cases), the gradual withering of your legacy – and the absence of the massive bills which accompanied it – achieves the twin objectives of reducing cost and improving performance.
In truth, our experience demonstrates that the biggest impediment to accelerated adoption of eXii is people's cultural resistance to change. The ‘we've always done it this way’ mentality.
eXii is so friendly to businesses which adopt it that you don't even need to plan to ring-fence your migration from your every-day operations. It talks to any system in any language, improves user experience, makes data more reliable and is (of course) massively robust, scalable and futureproof. Compelling, isn't it?