Accelerate Your Business

EXTOL’s business integration technology automates your business to accelerate results, reduce errors, and improve efficiency.

Businesses of all kinds need automation of internal and partner-facing processes, to compete, grow, and remain profitable. And integration technology makes automation of business processes happen.

Failing to automate critical business processes can increase costly errors, penalties, and administrative overhead, lengthen turnaround on important customer interactions, lower vendor scorecard ratings, reduce business efficiency and throughput, and inhibit your company’s ability to grow and take advantage of new business opportunities.

In fact, business integration is a necessity in any business that faces ongoing customer integration demands, M&A activity, regulatory requirements, new product and service introductions, application and platform migrations, or other common business events and changes.

Business integration enables automation of business activities and processes by connecting and orchestrating   business applications, data resources, external partners, and cloud-based services.  Integration middleware and tool solutions enable companies of all kinds to build, operate, and maintain business processes that produce critical business results much faster, more reliably, and less expensively than manual processing.

But business integration solutions are not created equal.  Important differences in problem coverage, usage complexity, speed of delivery, manageability, and total cost of ownership can make the difference between integration success or failure in your business.

EXTOL has supplied integration solutions to more than a thousand companies, in multiple industries.  Our focus on solving the whole integration problem, delivering robust integration results more quickly, and reducing overall lifecycle costs has earned our reputation for high quality and unmatched value.

Contact us to find out if we can help you achieve important integration goals in your business, such as:

• Increase business automation – Increase the number and variety of automated connections between your internal systems and external partners and resources, for higher levels of business efficiency.  EXTOL’s consistent integration approach lets you connect more kinds of application software, data and partner interfaces, in less time and with lower complexity.
• Integrate more of your trading partners – Interact directly with customers and other partners over the Internet or connect via Value-Added Networks (VANs) or industry trading hubs, in any combination. EXTOL's Design-time Automation™ Accelerators slash the time needed to deliver point-to-point and mediated partner connections, for both batch and near-real time connections.
• Integrate with the Cloud – Automate integration between Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and your internal systems, seamlessly. The same EXTOL tools and skills your IT staff uses for internal integration can be used to extend integration beyond your firewall.
• Exchange more kinds of data – Exchange virtually any kind of business transaction or other data between internal and Cloud-based applications, data stores, and external partners, in any combination.  EXTOL’s flexible data transformation and routing features let you connect systems using standard and non-standard EDI, XML, flat file, spreadsheet, and database content.
• Expose data to selected partners – Share data with customers and other partners using multiple methods, including web services that expose data to selected partners, on demand.  EXTOL’s powerful web service support integrates directly with applications and data, and lets you push data or respond to pull requests from external partners, in near-real time.

• Accelerate delivery of customer-facing processes – Accelerate implementation of Order-to-Cash, Load Tender-to-Delivery and other customer-facing processes, including Ship Destination Quantity (SDQ) and other specialized requirements.  EXTOL's Design-time Automation™ Accelerators let you create integration applications far faster than using traditional modeling tools, cutting the time needed to introduce new products and promotions.
• Onboard new customers faster – Onboard new partners and deliver new automated transaction processes faster, using  EXTOL's Design-time Automation™ technology.  It automates many partner onboarding activities, including partner endpoint generation, business document definition, and transformation mapping, so you can engage sooner with new customers.
• Expedite customer change requests – Slash the time needed to adopt new B2B document versions and transaction processes, by automating document definition, map migration, and process model changes.  EXTOL’s unique Migration Assistant and Smart Mapping tools cut maintenance time and cost, and enable you to respond faster to customer-driven changes.
• Deliver faster response turn-around – Provide the rapid response your customers demand, by integrating inbound transactions and outbound responses with your applications and data.  EXTOL products incorporate multi-threading, pipelining, and other features designed to optimize response, even with large transaction volumes.
• Handle exceptions faster – Pinpoint and diagnose invalid or missing data, missing acknowledgements, and other exceptions, with EXTOL’s dashboard and auditing tools.  Identify and resolve exceptions sooner for faster transaction completion and higher scorecard ratings.

• Replace error-prone manual processing – Reduce cost per transaction and improve accuracy and reliability by replacing manual rekeying, verification, and data routing with automated processing.  EXTOL’s flexible process architecture lets your IT staff automate B2B, application, data, and Cloud integration processes, using the same tools and skills.
• Achieve “lights-out” automation – Lower your operating costs, streamline processes, and free up skilled staff by configuring processes to run without human intervention.  EXTOL middleware automatically activates processing based on schedules, data arrival, and other events, and can alert appropriate personnel when intervention is needed.
• Reduce process cycle times – Reduce transaction processing time and turnaround latency by automating a wider range of internal and B2B processes, including Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Load tender-to-Delivery, and Claim-to-Settlement.  EXTOL technology supports straight-through processing by integrating automated processes directly with applications and data.
• Comply with regulations and mandates – Avoid fines and threats to revenue by automating processes that implement and enforce government and partner mandates. EXTOL’s highly flexible B2B integration services support B2B standards governing transaction content, privacy, reliability, and other key requirements.
• Reduce customer-imposed penalties – Reduce or eliminate charge-backs due to B2B transaction errors and improve your vendor scorecard rating.  EXTOL helps you avoid many errors and resolve others faster, through automation, rule-based data validation, automated error notifications, and on-demand reporting and diagnosis tools.
• Automate high-cost partner interactions – Automate interactions with small or offshore partners that depend on spreadsheets and other non-standard data.  EXTOL lets you automate processing of spreadsheets, proprietary flat files, and other desktop office suite documents that otherwise may be processed manually.
• Implement demand-driven replenishment – Integrate VMI, JIT replenishment, and other demand-driven processes, by triggering replenishment from demand signals.  EXTOL lets you integrate sales operations, supply management, and other applications non-invasively and in near-real time.

• Deliver data for business intelligence applications – Supply accurate, timely data to business intelligence applications that support procurement planning, customer loyalty analysis, and other decision-making processes.  EXTOL’s versatile data transformation engine turns database, flat file, spreadsheet, XML, and EDI data into the formats needed by your analytical applications and tools.
• Acquire and expose data for on-demand analysis – Rapidly implement web services that acquire or provide data for both internal and external (partner) decision processes, without human intervention.  EXTOL’s flexible web service support integrates directly with applications and data, and supports attachments using any supported data syntax or document type.
• Automate routine data syndication – Automate the distribution of monthly sales, daily inventory and other data in your choice of spreadsheet, XML, flat file, or EDI formats.  EXTOL Business Integrator lets you extract, transform, and route data inside or outside your company automatically, on a scheduled or event-driven basis.
• Route exception data automatically – Attach erroneous application data to automated email notifications, to facilitate identification and diagnosis of processing exceptions by your IT staff.  Customize process templates to include error notification as a standard activity for all of your business processes.
• Support integration management activities – Isolate and drill-down on integration processing status and results, to support management of your integration processes.  Using the EXTOL Dashboard, you can expose information to internal users and external partners, to facilitate management of automated processes.

• Complete integration projects earlier – Build, test, and deliver integration projects to production faster, so your business can realize automation benefits sooner.  EXTOL's Design-time Automation™ technology produces integration results far faster than traditional tools, by generating many integration deliverables.
• Onboard trading partners faster – Onboard new partners faster, using the powerful Design-time Automation™ Accelerators in EXTOL Integration Studio.  Generate partner endpoints, business document definitions, transformation mapping rules, and other deliverables.
• Cut integration maintenance time – Slash the time needed to modify and extend your integration processes, and get them back into production sooner.  Use EXTOL’s Migration Assistant and Smart Mapping tools to expedite version changes, application interface conversions, and other maintenance projects.
• Deliver faster response turn-around – Provide the rapid response your customers demand, by integrating inbound transactions and outbound responses with your applications and data.  EXTOL products incorporate multi-threading, pipelining, and other features designed to optimize response, even with large transaction volumes.
• Diagnose and fix problems sooner – Pinpoint and diagnose invalid or missing data, missing acknowledgements, and other exceptions, with EXTOL’s dashboard and auditing tools.  Identify and resolve exceptions sooner for faster transaction completion and higher scorecard ratings.

• Become an adaptable trading partner – Connect with customers, vendors, offshore suppliers, industry hubs, service providers, and other external partners using the protocols and document types they support.  Integrate end-to-end with your enterprise applications and data, with less time and effort than alternatives.
• Exploit best-of-breed applications – Take advantage of the best available application components from multiple vendors, and integrate them with external partners and with each other.  EXTOL gives you the flexibility to modernize applications in stages, and provides data conversion, replication, and interface migration tools to migrate faster.
• Extend your IT asset lifespan – Integrate your existing applications and data on supported platforms, in any combination.  EXTOL’s platform-independent architecture and any-to-any integration support extend the useful lifespan of your existing IT assets.
• Accelerate integration of M&A assets – Speed completion of merger, acquisition, or consolidation initiatives while minimizing operational disruptions. EXTOL’s flexible process model, abstract interfacing, and Design-time Automation™ technology facilitate parallel operations, data and transaction replication, and seamless cut-over.
• Think outside the applications box – Build business processes that combine data and services from multiple applications, to deliver capabilities not supported directly by your application vendors. EXTOL technology gives you the power to create custom integration applications that serve the unique requirements of your business.

• Choose a true integration partner – As a private, profitable, debt-free company with over 20 years of integration experience in multiple industries, EXTOL’s focus is on long-term customer relationships and technology value, not short-term gain.  EXTOL views integration as a business-critical investment, and is committed to mutual attainment of customer integration goals.
• Partner with experience – During its many years of project assistance and implementation, EXTOL has accumulated deep experience with industry-specific standards and numerous application software interfaces.  This base of integration expertise is an important part of the value EXTOL brings to new customer projects.
• Get support you can depend on – EXTOL’s renowned commitment to customer support reflects our view that quality training, project guidance, implementation assistance, and hotline support are as important to customer success as our industry-leading technology.
• Deal with experts, not outsourcers – EXTOL employees build all of our software and directly staff our customer service and support functions.  So when you partner with EXTOL, you deal with experts who understand and use EXTOL technology, every day.
• Solve the whole problem – Too many integration “solutions” support a narrow range of outcomes or come with long lists of prerequisites that cost extra time to acquire, integrate, and maintain.  Our customers tell us that they chose EXTOL because we solve more integration problems and include everything they need in one, cohesive architecture.
• Partner with an innovator – EXTOL’s history as an industry innovator includes bona fide technological breakthroughs, including automated partner setup, mapping automation, automated map migration, and the Integration Pattern Repository.  EXTOL brings that innovation mindset to the application of integration technology in customer engagements and support conversations.