Digital transformation is a topic that touches every company in every industry. One may conclude that there are no two digital transformation journeys alike. Every organization has specific challenges and objectives they want to tackle. However, the foundation of all digital transformation strategies is generally the same, and Mulesoft integration can be one of them!
A digital transformation strategy is about how to digitize every part of the business. In other words, it’s the integration of digital technologies into all business units aiming to change how they operate and deliver value to the customers. It could mean, for instance, faster adoption of new technologies or improvement of customer experiences. And we’re living in an era where everything needs to connect, so Mulesoft runs a role of integrating all types of systems into one platform, as every part of the business needs technology to operate.
In this article, we address 5 of the challenges that IT and the lines of the business face. Also, we get into how Mulesoft helps support your digital transformation strategy to overpass them. Find the table of contents below:
- Increase the speed of IT
- Modernize your legacy
- Accelerate enterprise-wide innovation
- Unlock the value of your data
- Increase your productivity
1. Increase the speed of IT
The number of projects IT is asked to deliver has been significantly on the rise. It reflects the growing strategic importance of IT and digital transformation. But IT teams struggle to deliver projects on time becoming the bottleneck to evolution.
There are multiple points of potential failure or delays. Among others, integration challenges and existing IT infrastructure are big threats that slow down transformation initiatives and impact efficiency.
However, integration is a key enabler for digital transformation as organizations look to connect and drive more value from their new and existing apps and data. Thus, the way forward is not to remove the integration from the picture, but to optimize the way you integrate.
Agility, reusability, security, governance, and reliability are some of the characteristics to search for in an integration platform. But it is also necessary to have a well-defined approach to the integration layer, like an API-led strategy.
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform is a unified solution for iPaaS and full life-cycle API management.
With the Anypoint Platform you can:
- Build, test, share, deploy, monitor, and govern all on the same platform
- Accelerate application delivery by building APIs with speed and quality
- Enable reuse of assets to move faster by building a custom marketplace
- Increase developer productivity by focusing on the application-specific logic
- Run in any architecture or environment
- Ensure automated and consistent security for your APIs and data
2. Modernize your legacy with Mulesoft integration
Many organizations find it difficult to adopt new technologies such as cloud, big data, IoT or digital channels due to the dependency on its legacy enterprise systems.
Mulesoft approach to connectivity allows IT teams to rapidly modernize legacy applications by exposing them as modern reusable APIs and simplifying integration by making use of prebuilt connectors and integration templates.
This way you can maximize your legacy investments by modernizing instead of discarding them:
- Quickly connect legacy systems to digital channels
- Lower legacy system development and maintenance spends
- Extract and unify data from any application or system
- Insulate legacy systems from impacts to mission-critical processes
Anypoint Exchange is MuleSoft’s go-to repository of assets like connectors and APIs that you can import to the development workspace and kickstart integration with your legacy systems.
If you can’t find what you are looking for you can always build a custom asset. That asset can then be shared in Exchange with your organization so that it will be reused on your next project.
3. Accelerate enterprise-wide innovation
Every organization needs to respond to the needs of its customers faster than ever before. Organizations need to democratise access to their data to keep up with the growing demand for digital initiatives. Unlocking and integrating data – no matter where it resides – will enable the organization to deliver critical, time-sensitive projects, and innovation at scale.
Organizations recognize the strategic importance of integration to help achieve revenue goals and deliver connected experiences faster. To lessen the integration burden on IT and drive innovation and productivity, organizations are looking to drive reuse of existing integrations and empower the wider business to connect apps and data.
Partnership between LoB users and IT is key to driving innovation and creating better customer experiences. With a self-service model that empowers everyone to harness data and deliver new features, organizations can enable innovation everywhere in a way that’s secured and governed but not gated by IT. It allows them to focus on innovation and delivering high impact projects.
We’re looking at a future of a composable enterprise, where digital capabilities can be composed from existing applications using APIs, rather than being built from scratch every time.
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform already makes it possible to empower everyone in the company — from IT to LoB, from small business to enterprise, from integration to API management — to unlock data and go digital, faster. The recently released MuleSoft Composer pushes this even further by empowering business users and Salesforce administrators to reuse existing integrations, delivering new features, faster, with clicks, not code.
MuleSoft is also key to enabling innovation by allowing organisations to experiment and innovate faster and at a lower cost with MuleSoft’s cloud-based model. If the experiment is successful, scale it. If not, discard it at a lower cost.
4. Unlock the value of your data
Information is power, but only if you make use of it. Data silos are the cause for significant problems for most enterprises, having impact on innovation and on the improvement of user experiences.
Relevant data is stored in different systems, with low visibility from the outside of that system and little to no possibility to build a big picture of your business, your customers, or your enterprise. Data scientists, business analysts, customer support teams are some of the roles that can make use of this information and the demand for data integration is increasing.
Integrating systems will give you access to this valuable data. It allows you to build an end-to-end data strategy, unlocking enterprise data and empowering all business teams to deliver value for the customers. This integration should be built on top of an API led strategy that promotes reusability and makes the platform’s data composable, allowing to add new sources and consumers in a short period of time.
These API’s can be consumed by any relevant client application, including the Anypoint DataGraph.
Anypoint DataGraph allows faster innovation by consuming data from many APIs in a single request and providing a capability to tailor data for the specific needs of different digital channel.
It also accelerates the development process and eliminates the need for custom code to parse through long responses.
5. Increase your productivity
Organizations are increasingly turning to automation to unlock productivity and create seamless experiences. However, automating work in a work-from-anywhere world is more difficult than ever because data and systems are becoming ever more fragmented.
By taking a unified approach to integration, API management, and automation, organizations will have a more resilient, secure, and flexible foundation to automate business processes in the future. MuleSoft enables hyperautomation by making it easy for business and IT users to integrate data from anywhere and automate business processes to increase efficiency and speed.
The latest solution on the Mulesoft hyperautomation stack is Mulesoft RPA which is focused on connecting and automating business processes, and is seamlessly integrated with the Anypoint Platform and Mulesoft Composer.
Mulesoft RPA delivers intelligent automation capabilities and enables the composable business by replacing repetitive tasks with bots to process documents, enter data, or act on the user’s behalf, all without any code.
This end-to-end business automation drives innovation and collaboration. It streamlines processes, increases efficiency and speed, and enables users to integrate and automate with disconnected legacy systems.
A digital transformation journey is constantly evolving to keep up with ever-changing digital trends and consumer behaviour. With Mulesoft integration you can virtually connect anything, anywhere, giving you the possibility to build a future-proof framework for your digital needs.
With solutions like the Anypoint Platform, Mulesoft Composer, Mulesoft RPA alongside an API-led integration strategy, organizations can bring together best-in-class integration, API management, and RPA capabilities to transform into a composable business ready to evolve and innovate faster than ever before.
Now you know more about what Mulesoft can do for your business! Stay tuned for more updates! And don’t forget to subscribe to our Knowledge Center!
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