Creating an aligned business is getting harder, as organizations become more digitally focused and embrace remote and hybrid work models. While these advancements can be positive, they can also leave your business prone to silos. 

To align your teams and promote effective collaboration, you must break down the silos within your organization. One common cause of silos is disparate systems. These systems aren’t able to sync data with the rest of your tech stack–resulting in stale and incomplete data. This can cause misalignment on your teams since each system has a different version of the data. 

On top of that, to complete processes that span multiple systems, you’ll need to manually enter data into each application. This process is not just slow and error-prone; it also consumes your team’s time and prevents them from focusing on strategic initiatives.

By integrating your tech stack enterprise-wide, you can sync data across all your applications and automate your processes end-to-end. Let’s dive deeper into the importance of building a connected enterprise and how to achieve it with integration and automation.

 

Hear from Celigo’s CEO Jan Arendtsz on how Celigo helps create connected enterprises.

Building a connected enterprise

Connecting your systems enterprise-wide is the first step to a more aligned and collaborative organization. But with the average tech stack including 130 applications, it can be hard to know where to start. 

A good way to understand your top priorities is to map your applications. By mapping your current architecture to your key processes, you can get a clear view of where manual data entry tasks are occurring. Prioritize integrations that will alleviate the biggest pain points first. 

Here are some key questions to kickstart this process:

• What data is needed for optimal system performance?
• Where is that data sourced from?
• What inefficiencies is this system causing?

After you’ve integrated your core systems, you can then add additional integrations to build a truly connected enterprise. 

Leveraging an advanced iPaaS

Integrating your tech stack shouldn’t fall solely on your IT team. If it does, you risk bottlenecks and additional silos. 

With the right integration solution, you can empower both IT and business users to build, manage, and monitor integrations. This not only democratizes the integration process, but also gives your business teams the agency required to drive innovation. 

By adopting an advanced iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service), like Celigo, you’ll gain the powerful capabilities required to build and manage integrations across your enterprise. Plus, the user-friendly interface enables business users who understand the applications and processes best to build their own integrations.

As Celigo’s CEO Jan Arendtsz puts it, “The people who knew a lot about those apps and the underlying business processes they needed to be empowered to be able to go build these various workflows and manage these integrations.” This reduces the reliance on IT, allows for faster implementation, and improves your ability to adapt to changing business requirements. 

Automating your processes with Celigo

With your tech stack integrated, you can begin to automate processes across your organization. This allows you to eliminate tedious manual data entry tasks and refocus your teams on initiatives that propel your business forward. Celigo’s iPaaS allows you to automate processes from IT to HR, boosting efficiency for every team enterprise-wide. 

By dismantling your data silos and freeing your teams from manual tasks, you pave the way for enhanced alignment and collaboration. This synergy fosters innovation, efficiency, and ultimately, growth.

Dive deeper into how to automate your processes end-to-end with our ebook, “From busywork to brilliance: How IT can champion smarter workflows.”