Example 1

You manually entered in two systems. Good examples are:

• Maintaining customer data in multiple systems
• Having no automatic booking of invoices in your accounting system

Example 2

You plan to expand your business by moving into new markets or the acquisition of external companies, usually that means you will face following challenges:

• New or external companies not only need to be integrated into your existing organisation in terms of people, culture and processes, but also in terms of data
• In order to manage a newly acquired company efficiently, you need make sure that their systems communicate with your system asap.

Example 3

You have an ecosystem of many different customers and external partners, or/and you have many different systems internally and purely 1:1 interfaces in place, that means:

• Sometimes data transmission fail and there is no proactive error handling by your IT
• Every time a new customer or system needs to be integrated you start building an interface from scratch