Simplifying the complexity of integration ...

In today's ever changing marketplace, organisations large and small are under increasing pressure to deliver more for less in an attempt to satisfy the competing demands of external competition, regulatory and standards change and organisational mergers.

In reaction to this pressure, most organisations have recognised the important role integration technologies can play in helping them deliver, maintain and support their systems.

However, these technologies are not in themselves a silver bullet, and poor architecture and design can result in inflexible solutions require an army of experts to support and maintain.

All too often the resulting complexity makes it impossible to off-shore the support and maintenance of the solution, thus removing any cost savings or speed to market which the integration technologies were supposed to deliver.

Fortunately the team at Icon Solutions has been at the forefront of the integration technology revolution for over 10 years, helping customers develop, deliver, support and maintain some of the most challenging integration solutions based on IBM WebSphere.

This experience includes helping deliver one of the highest performing WebSphere Message Broker installations in the world, and the integration of ten legacy applications in a Faster Payments estate.

Broadly speaking our experience falls into three categories: