In order to efficiently apply its integration strategy, Solvay needed to adopt the good iPaaS solution. While SAP Cloud Platform Integration is currently used for specific integration purposes, no proper iPaaS study has been done to assess the available solutions on the market (rejected several times since last 2 yrs during budget review).As the integration strategy accelerates and with looming PO2 separation, it becomes urgent to perform the study to identify an adequate iPaaS solution soon.

• a good iPaaS solution can help future companies to improve agility, reduce running costs and enhance productivity.
• Estimated Budget 80K EUR

Application Integration needs have greatly evolved since the implementation of the first solution at Solvay. Those needs have followed the fundamental change in the application landscape to be integrated, moving towards a more decentralized and cloud-based architecture. It has increased the need for more scalability, flexibility, and agility in order to prevent integration being a bottleneck.

To adapt to this change, a new integration strategy has recently been worked on at Solvay (“API first, iPaaS second, ESB otherwise”).

Furthermore, as the market for Integration platforms has evolved accordingly, a project for an iPaaS study* has been proposed but rejected due to budget considerations, then due to PO2 frozen activities.

More recently, an additional need coming from the work related to the TOM integration architecture for ECo and SCo, has emerged: to leverage the iPaaS Discovery initiative in order to validate and complement the TOM recommendations for Integration. The project can thus be considered as a follow-up of that work.

The objectives of the study are :

• to identify the best solutions to be part of the ECo/SCo respective integration platforms, and bring the information that the future DT LT teams will need to take an informed decision about the TOM architectures for integration.
• to design adapted governance models best fitting the proposed integration platforms and aligned with both companies attributes.
• to assess ease of use, as different solutions have different interfaces and levels of complexity
• to evaluate the cost - as solutions can vary in terms of pricing, with different providers offering different pricing models and subscription plans.
• to identify potential limitations,  any potential limitations or drawbacks of different solutions, such as limited integration capabilities (ex: BPMS) or lack of support for certain applications or systems

This current initiative will not replace any existing solution but to do a Study and come up with a proposed new Integrated solution for future companies ECO and SCO , which will be separated projects.

The project will put the ECo and SCo DT LT teams in a good position to take the decisions related to the TOM integration architectures, and start implementing them as soon as the future DT LT teams are in place.

In the context of PO2, it is imperative that future independent companies may want to look for alternatives to webMethods platform, especially considering the complexity and running costs of maintaining it .

Furthermore, as both companies will have different objectives and constraints, translating into different TOM, application landscapes and IT strategies, the solutions part of their respective integration platform should align with these specificities.

• Integration Architect (Michaël Opoczynski)
• Integration Expert (CAPGEMINI - Prateek Bhatnagar)
• Enterprise Archictect (Thierry Renault)
• Platform Architect (Jérôme Romain)

Do you think if your initiative is compatible with a waterfall approachor with an agile approach?

• Agile model
• Waterfall model
• I do not know at this stage

• Collect ECo/SCo detailed integration requirements
• Identify and interview potential vendors, review professional case studies from the industry experts
• Assess and select the solutions in accordance with Solvay’s compliance and cybersecurity requirements
• Define new service governance models
• Define the implementation plans

Complete Architecture Impact Analysis (AIA)

Will be completed on Monday March 13th 2023

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- Is the business ambition you will support improving or not sustainability?

- Will you increase or decrease the number of hardware we need to operate? How much ?

- Will you generate or transfer an important amount of data, especially videos? How much?