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1. What are the Major Steps Involved in Business Process Integration and how it helps your
Business?
Can anyone think about the old business model entirely based on demand and supply concept
without any external catalysts that stimulate speedy growth annexed with enhanced efficiency? It
is seldom possible to run business that way and having a complex business concern with multiple
heads or departments makes it more vulnerable to system or process intricacies.
What is Business Process Integration?
As the term suggests it is nothing but merging of all the activities or processes prevalent in a
business environment. It involves an interlinking between all the sub systems within the whole
parent system in real time so as to make it more effective and efficient. This integration covers
all the partners of a particular business activity irrespective of them operating internally or
externally in relation to the main system. All types of processes including IT enabled ones come
under its purview.
Steps Involved in Business Process Integration
It is not as easy as it sounds to integrate all the processes of any business because it consists of
various stages and techniques.
Step 1.
Matching
This is the foremost step involved in the journey towards total integration of processes. All the
systems and processes prevalent in any ambience need to be analyzed properly to find out
similarities between them. Similar processes thus analyzed are clustered in the later part of this
stage.
Step 2.
Integration
In this subsequent stage of integration, all those activities that are similar are merged with each
other so as to form a new process involving all the functions of the older processes.
Step 3.
Regression
This stage is also considered as a major step in achieving effective business process integration
as it precludes any chances of duplication. Here the resultant of first two stages is modified or
polished so as to remove any unwanted activities, data or information. Many scholars consider
this step as a sub-stage within the integration stage.

2. Advantages of Business Process Integration
Nobody will argue on the fact that process integration technique will bring forth enormous
advantages to all business activities. There are many benefits to list out;

Cost Reduction.
Despite incurring an initial integration cost, business process
integration will remarkably reduce the running cost in the long run.

Enhanced Efficiency.
An integrated system will surely increase the
efficiency of the system as it will not take much time to incorporate changes or
modifications in to the system according to the requirement.

Added Flexibility.

Futuristic Strategy.
Strategic planning becomes easy with an integrated
business model as any move will bring forth desired goals in all the sub systems and
activities simultaneously.
Integration will add to the flexibility of the entire system.