Skapa värde med integrationer - En studie av hur affärsvärde och konkurrensfördelar skapas från integrationer i industribranschen.
Companies will increasingly begin to link their applications, and the technology that makesthis possible is called integration. The more applications that are connected, the more of the company's data flows through these integrations. It is also clear that data analyses to create business value and to get competitive advantages against its competitors are important. In this paper, we examine how companies create business value and competitive advantages throughthe integration platforms and metadata from the integrations. We have interviewedpeople from three companies in the industrial sector, each with an integration platform.We have also interviewed Enfo Zystems, a company that provides development andmanagement of integration platforms to these customers. Our interviews have shown thatthe integrations for the most part help companies streamline their operations. We have also seen that the integrations can help companies get competitive advantages against its competitors, for example by combining metadata from the integration with the data in the messages sent in the integrations, thus creating a real time view of how the company performs.