Enterprise Application Integration
Achieving interoperability involves much more than just Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI). It requires proper and appropriate implementation of standards, not just
within the organization, but also throughout the extended enterprise. It involves
intimate knowledge of the business workflow and how the applications support those
processes. It involves understanding the supporting infrastructure, systems architecture,
security models, and compliance requirements. Additionally it involves a true understanding
of the business impact should this integration not be available or implemented appropriately.
Experts in the prevailing integration paradigms and technologies, Santa Rosa helps
you reach your specific, unique goals by combining today’s leading technologies,
experience, and proven methodologies. We provide our clients with flexible comprehensive
and affordable ways to overcome the challenge of application integration.
Industry Education
Technology, vendors, and standards are constantly changing making it difficult to
stay current on the EAI market and to incorporate meaningful activities into business
planning. Santa Rosa offers tailored education on EAI products, services, standards,
and architecture and how they are best applied to the organization.
Product Education and Mentoring
New middleware implementations or significant upgrades often pose a productivity
challenge for the integration staff. Santa Rosa’s customized training and mentoring
to your integration staff offers practical insight, proven best practices, and product
implementation assistance beyond the middleware vendor’s training programs, also
allowing for group or individual training at your pace and expertise level. Santa
Rosa believes in training your staff the same as we would our own and leave you
with a sense of full disclosure and product knowledge to support each facilities
on-going needs.
System Selection
There are dozens of middleware applications and integration technologies available.
Choosing the products that are appropriate for your requirements and budget can
be difficult and time consuming. Santa Rosa provides services for all phases of
the selection life cycle including RFI and RFP development, facilitation, evaluations,
and contract negotiations; matching your specific functional, technical and budgetary
requirements to the appropriate industry services and products.
Architectural Assessment
Workflow, performance and supportability can be negatively impacted by poor architectural
design. Santa Rosa will evaluate your current methods, tools, and processes for
application integration and event management providing guidance and recommendations
to provide a robust, stable, secure, and efficient EAI infrastructure that will
meet your needs today and tomorrow.
Dataflow Analysis
New application implementations require interoperability with the business process
framework. Santa Rosa will design and/or optimize of the organizations workflow,
event triggering, and message flow to provide optimal interoperability between disparate
applications.
Architectural Design and Optimization
Santa Rosa brings its industry experience and implementation know-how with leading
middleware vendors such as Sun Microsystems (SeeBeyond), HealthVision (Cloverleaf),
Orion Health, Siemens, Epic Systems and Cerner to provide a highly available, robust,
scalable and secure EAI infrastructure. Services include the architecture of the
middleware applications, server’s configurations and sizing, as well as specific
interface design and requirement documentation.
Implementation Services
New application implementations or version upgrades normally result in new application
integration projects; creating temporary project work that requires point expertise.
Santa Rosa’s consultants support your interface analysis, development, testing,
and go-live activities utilizing your infrastructure and tools. Experts in HL7,
XML, X12, and COLD document integration, we follow your organization’s standards
or you can leverage our proven best practices and methodologies. Santa Rosa consultants
follow the integration industry and quickly become involved in, and experts of,
new technologies as they become available. With new IHE and DICOM standards on the
horizon we can assist in getting your staff up to speed or with the build of new
message standards.
Upgrades
As the EAI vendors continue to enhance their solutions, upgrades are inevitable
and rarely easy and may even require re-architecting your current interfaces. Santa
Rosa provides guidance and implementation services to keep you current; assessing
your current environment, structuring the right upgrade strategy and providing the
appropriate upgrade and implementation services. Santa Rosa consultants will help
your organization from the planning through post upgrade support and issue resolution,
providing you with a single source for enterprise EAI upgrade needs.
Strategic Staffing
Occasionally, there is more project demand than resources and retaining qualified
staff is always challenging. Santa Rosa provides short and long term staffing of
experienced, vendor certified consultants to help you get your projects done. Santa
Rosa also staffs consultants with the background and expertise to lead your projects
from inception through completion, while providing you with best practices and ongoing
support documents and templates for your organization.