Integration Delivery

The processes, practises and capabilities necessary to translate business requirements into effective and compliant integration solutions must be nurtured over time. The Marlo Group has delivered numerous integration solutions to our clients, whilst assisting them to build the necessary internal delivery competencies.

At The Marlo Group we don’t just talk strategically, we work with your problem end-to-end and take ownership of translating your requirements into solutions that meet the stated service objectives.

Solution Architecture
Building an integration solution demands a disciplined approach to solution architecture that captures a whole of solution perspectives overlaid across the business architecture, process and information artefacts of the Enterprise Architecture.

The proven Marlo Group processes will ensure the delivery of a solution architecture that will demonstrate alignment with the Enterprise Architecture as well as the Integration Architecture; identifying the technology choices, service level objectives and behaviours, high level process and information flows and that must be considered and incorporated within the solution design.

Solution Design
When it comes to integration solution design – contemporary technologies offer any number of ways to build a solution poorly. Only by a disciplined approach to solution design, coupled with experienced practitioners, can the bitter and expensive repercussions of solution failure be predictably avoided.

The Marlo Group conventions for solution design identify all elements and components in the design and the means for implementation showing traceability to requirements and an ability to satisfy the Service Level Objectives.

Solution Development
It is often impractical to ramp a permanent workforce to cope with the load associated with a major integration initiative.  

The Marlo Group will build and deliver a core solution (all or in part) and transition the skills and competencies into the integration services group within your corporation.

Solution Deployment
Solutions that fail to meet business objectives or service level expectations result in expensive rework, additional infrastructure investment and major project delays. Often such occurrences can be traced to failures in relation to the infrastructure and solution provisioning, deployment and configuration. Further, the complexities of managing the version and revision interdependencies of numerous distributed systems present special challenges to the inexperienced in terms of release management.

The Marlo Group has the expertise necessary to ensure that Infrastructure is engineered to meet the functional and non functional requirements of the solution and that application deployment and configuration requirements are addressed in a manner that will ensure the design objectives of the solution are met.

Skills Transfer
Specialist skills in integration remain scarce commodity. Even the largest of integration programs under the management of the Corporation or an IT Service Provider can benefit from the inclusion of experts who are capable of delivering outputs and providing technical leadership in the delivery of solution architecture, design and components.

The Marlo Group can provide experts to assist with delivery and or mentoring of your staff, assist with resource shortfalls and specific technical skill needs. Importantly, The Marlo Group will structure processes to ensure transfer of skills into your organisation for the long term.