Patni builds its Enterprise Integration capability on a strong foundation of proven methodologies, best practices, and reference architecture and guidelines. In-depth product and tool knowledge rounds out the picture.

Patni's flexible Enterprise Integration solutions are designed to meet the challenges of many different business scenarios. The company's technology expertise in the Enterprise Integration space spans the following areas:

Patni develops and maintains its Enterprise Integration capabilities through Integration and Web Services Centers of Excellence (CoEs). CoEs conduct ongoing work to standardize integration approaches, processes and related technologies.

Integration and Web Services CoEs focus on:

• Application integration and collaborative computing solutions across a diverse set of enterprise products
• Real-time integration solutions to link heterogeneous enterprise applications
• Integration methodologies, frameworks and best practices.

Integration Methodologies
To ensure successful client engagements, Patni has developed standard methodologies for:

• Integration assessment
• Integration implementation
• Iterative and incremental development
• Migration and re-engineering.

The schematic below depicts a typical cycle for arriving at an Integration framework, and is part of Patni's Integration Assessment Methodology.

Patni Proprietary Integration Framework

Patni has managed integration projects for clients in a broad range of industries including: insurance, manufacturing, financial services, energy and utilities (E&U) and retail.

Enterprise Integration analysis and planning
Patni helped one of the largest US E&U companies to make the business case for integration. This E&U giant was looking for a consultant that could analyze, research and document business case for Integration, Employee Portal and Identity Management. Patni successfully made the three business cases. For the Integration business case the deliverables included:

• A comprehensive business case for integration
• A complete five-year integration road map
• A detailed estimate of the implementation effort required.

Business process integration
Patni provided integration services to one of the world's largest re-insurance corporations for integrating and enhancing the premiums and claims processes. The organization wanted to simplify and automate premium and claim receipt and processing as well as the booking of these transactions by legacy systems.

Web portal and back-office integration
For a leading European automobile manufacturer, Patni streamlined the delivery process by integrating dealers, distribution depots and sales and marketing staff. Patni developed a Web portal for dealers, depot personnel and sales and marketing staff, integrated with the company's inventory and sales systems.

B2B integration
Patni helped a global electronics and telecom industry leader having a huge number of sales, service and distribution centers, automate its claims processing for product under warranties in the Asia-pacific region. Complete automation was achieved between the parent organization and the outsource manufacturer using Webmethods B2Bi and Rosettanet.