Organizations today are challenged with the management and integration of multiple different business applications and systems (content, ERP, CRM, Workflow, etc.) resulting from departmental investments or inherited through mergers and acquisitions. These challenges undermine key business initiatives and misalign IT from business objectives, trapping content and information in isolated silos, and starving employees, customers, vendors and suppliers of valuable information.

Alero's integration services address this very problem. Designed as a service-oriented Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) specifically for the management and integration of enterprise information, Alero delivers rapid integration capabilities through its integration services that let you concurrently and quickly connect, integrate, access, manage, and optimize large-scale information resources. And deployment is a snap: Alero's integration services can be embedded into a business application in a matter of hours or days, making ECI or EII capabilities immediately available.

By providing a dynamic, personalized, and secured view of the enterprise’s information resources for each individual user bi-directionally and in real time—regardless of the complexity or diversity of the IT infrastructure—Alero essentially virtualizes the enterprise as one single system without compromising existing IT investments, reducing the risks and costs associated with development and integration initiatives.

Based on a comprehensive set of pre-built adapters, which deliver dynamic, bi-directional access to individual or multiple underlying systems in real time, and a comprehensive set of pre-built services, which deliver services to the information accessed through the connectivity layer, Alero allows organizations to immediately shift the emphasis from data and application integration to information integration, simplifying the process of integration altogether.

Alero's integration services make integration drag-and-drop simple. Imagine: within minutes, you can integrate a recently scanned document, a document from a SharePoint® repository, with a CRM record. This can all be done without writing a single line of code or knowing any technical data properties.

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The Alero integration services implement the enterprise content integration (ECI), enterprise information integration (EII) and virtualization capabilities of the product. Following is a brief description of the integration services provided with the product.

• Content integration services facilitate the integration of content management systems, including FileNet, Hummingbird DOCS Open and DM, SharePoint, Xythos, and Tower Software.
• Information integration services facilitate the integration of other types of systems, including databases, file systems, business application, etc.
• Virtualization services facilitate the orchestration of multiple repositories as one virtual repository, hiding the complexities of working with complex systems (different vendors, platforms, locations, architectures, data types, etc.).

Note: Other content management systems, applications, and business solutions can easily be integrated by Alero or its partners using the Alero Server SDK. Alero's approach to integration is to build adapters as the business demands it.

Although Alero’s integration services can be acquired and used independently to meet specific integration requirements, when used together with the other Alero services, you gain the synergistic benefits of leveraging your entire enterprise information resources and data—objects, documents, records and transactions—into your enterprise processes, creating an integrated business environment in which employees, customers, suppliers and vendors can most effectively and securely exchange information.

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