Business and IT requirements
Technical monitoring alone does not detect every data issue. Missing records, delayed updates and format deviations must also be identified before they affect users and applications.
We implement controls in the integration layer, including ACE, MQ, Sterling and transformation processes. They monitor volumes, latency, completeness and format compliance.
Our services
- Flow instrumentationTechnical and business probes on the integration layer: message counts, latency, freshness, rejection rates, and a breakdown per partner.
- Quality rules and profilingConformity, completeness, uniqueness and referential rules defined with the business and executed on the flow rather than after the fact.
- Anomaly detection and alertingThreshold and pattern detection on flow behaviour, with alert routing that reaches someone who can act, and Watson AI where pattern detection earns its place.
- Lineage and impact analysisField-level traceability from source to consuming application helps identify the data and processes affected by an incident.
- Pipeline health reportingOne shared view of pipeline health for IT, business owners and second-line functions. The same numbers, one source.
Freshness is the variable most people forget when they judge AI output. A model reading yesterday's positions gives yesterday's answer with today's confidence.
Typical project needs
- An incident that reached the business before IT
- Recurring disputes about whose numbers are right
- Preparation of an AI or analytics programme
- Service levels promised to partners with no measurement
- An operational resilience requirement under DORA
Technologies and standards
- Instrumentation of ACE, MQ and Sterling flows
- Custom probes and metrics exposition
- Alerting and escalation chains
- Power BI and Qlik health dashboards
- IBM Watson AI for pattern detection
- Microsoft Purview for cataloguing
Assessment and scoping
A 5 to 15 day assessment gives you a map of this scope, a gap analysis and a costed plan.
Proof
Project references
Transport and supply chain
Round-the-clock monitoring on a full ESB platform
For a major European logistics player, an ESB platform integrating WMS, TMS, ERP and B2B partner flows, monitored and alerted around the clock on the flows the business depends on.
ESB · ACE · MQ · B2B · API · Monitoring
Engagement models
Assessment — 5 to 15 days, fixed price. Flow cartography, gap analysis, costed plan. A short document written to be signed by a decision-maker.
Build — A bounded project. Design, development, testing and cut-over on a defined perimeter.
Run — Recurring. Operations, monitoring, evolution and on-call cover on your critical flows.
Assess your integration architecture
A 5 to 15 day assessment gives you a flow map, a gap analysis and a costed plan. Short, fixed price, written to be signed by a decision-maker.