Core system change
Data entered once, across the systems you own. Every integration designed to one vision, built on the platform that fits it, and validated before you rely on it.
One vision, the right platform, delivered in phases. Validated before you rely on it. No vendor commissions, ever.
What you walk away with, how it runs, and what makes it work on your side.
One integration vision, so one-off builds stop.
A platform and provider decision you can defend.
Phases your Board can see as one plan.
Integrations reconciled before you rely on them.
An impact pack after each phase.
1. Vision
2. Select
3. Design
4. Build and validate
5. Launch and prove
The last three repeat for every phase. Duration depends on scope.
Name one sponsor with authority across the systems and the provider, so decisions don't stall between owners.
Give access and realistic test data early, so every flow is proven on your data, not a sample.
Hold the provider to the build and the working sessions, so what is built matches what was signed off.
Let your system owners decide ownership, exceptions and sign-off, so every flow has someone accountable when it breaks.
Sign off each stage within the agreed window, so the phases move in order.
Most integrations start with the technology. The pattern is predictable.
Platform first. Middleware bought before anyone has mapped what should flow, in which direction, and who owns it when it breaks.
Point to point. Every new system gets its own bespoke connections, until the landscape is a web nobody can change safely.
Built, never validated. Interfaces go live, exceptions pile up in someone's inbox, and finance reconciles by hand at month end.
Left as it is, the rework compounds, the reconciliation never shortens, and every reporting cycle starts with a data clean-up.
Integrating without an agreed vision is expensive. It multiplies rework, hides ownership and leaves point-to-point connections that cannot be changed without risk. The cost shows up as manual reconciliation, delayed statements, stalled projects and integration tickets that never close.
The work tells you, in order:
What should flow between which systems, in which direction, and who owns each flow when it breaks.
Which platform fits that vision, and who should build on it.
Which phase to start with, so the impact is measured before more is added.
We sit on your side of the integration. We have worked with many top vendors across the technology stack. We do not sell software and we take no commission.
Vendor neutral. The integration platform and the provider who builds on it are chosen on the evidence against the agreed vision. Nothing is taken from either of them.
One vision governs every build. Every integration is designed and reviewed against that vision before you are asked to sign it off.
Validated before you rely on it. Every flow is reconciled against its source before it carries live data, then handed to your own people.
Five stages. The last three repeat for every phase in the vision. Each stage gets your sign-off before the next begins.
What flows, in which direction, and who owns it. A baseline is set on errors and rework. Kept short by design.
The integration platform and the provider who builds on it, chosen on the evidence against the vision. Skipped where what you already own fits.
Each phase designed to the vision, with connections, ownership and exception handling made explicit.
Built by the provider to the signed-off design, reviewed by us, every flow reconciled against its source.
Live, measured against the baseline, handed to the internal owner. Then the next phase begins.
Duration depends on scope. The vision and platform selection are kept as short as possible so budget and time go to the build and beyond.
You see the work as often as you want to. We carry the vision, the platform decision, the design and the review of every build. The provider builds to the design. Your people give us system access, decisions and an owner for each phase.
We check where the integration should start before we start.
Known defects between systems. Records not flowing, codes not matching, statements delayed, finance reconciling by hand. The work starts in Vision, with those defects as the first baseline.
You already have an integration platform. The platform is in, but its integrations were built without a vision, or are not holding. Vision comes first. Select is skipped where the platform fits, and Design starts with your existing provider.
A new core system is on the way. Its integrations belong inside the implementation, not in a separate engagement. We say so, and recommend Software Implementation, with the integration vision still coming first.
One integration vision: what flows where, in which direction, and who owns it, so one-off builds stop.
A platform and provider decision you can defend, with the reasons written down.
A program of integration phases your Board and executives can see as one plan, not a loose list of interfaces.
Integrations reconciled against their sources before you rely on them, not discovered through exceptions in someone's inbox.
An impact pack after each phase: errors and rework against the baseline, and what the next phase takes on.
We design it and check it. Your provider builds it.
LevelUp™. Continual improvement after the project, with a monthly cadence and a named senior consultant, so you keep getting more from the technology you have. It starts only if you want it to, once the work is handed over. The next phase: the next set of flows in the vision, scoped from the impact pack, with its own measure.
A self-scored read of each core system, resolving to keep, fix or replace, and what is holding it back.
Your name, work email and organisation. We email the document to you.
A Strategy Call with a senior consultant, 30 or 45 minutes, whichever suits the discussion, to test where your integration should start.