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Automating Integration, Quality & GovernanceDRIVING INNOVATION IN BUSINESS TEC HNOLOGY FOR PC L
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Who Am I?
Brian Kmet Senior Manager, PCL Business Technology Group
• 25+ years in the IT Domain
• Fan of Disruption, Data Geek
• PCL’s Analytics and Business Data Optimization Program
• PCL’s ERP and Financial Applications
• PCL’s People Applications
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Today’s Story
• Who is PCL?
• PCL Business Technology Group’s Strategic Pillars
• Data Challenges: Stop Playing Kerplunk, Do the Math
• Why Dell Boomi
• Tangible Results (What PCL Learned)
• Questions (I’ll Do My Best to Answer)
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Buildings SectorSAN Airport Green Build
San Diego, California
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Heavy Industrial SectorNatural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant
Louisville, Kentucky
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Civil Infrastructure SectorI-4 Connector / Selmon Crosstown
Tampa, Florida
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PCL’s Business Technology Strategic Pillars
Cloud, SaaS• Time to Market• Cost Efficiency• Shift and Scale
Mobility• Information and Applications:
Anywhere – Anytime – Any Device
Integration• Plug and Play• Data as a Service
Data and Analytics• Information is an Asset and
a Competitive Differentiator• Descriptive, Predictive,
Prescriptive Analytics
Laser Focus on Field Productivity,
Operational Excellence
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PCL’s Data Integration Woes Began with Kerplunk…and Ended With Some
Math
PCL’s ERP Needed to Exchange Data…So We Built a Few Integrations
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And a Few Apps Required CRM Data
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And Then the Business Started Asking Questions
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• No Standards• Spaghetti SQL• Integration Sprawl, Redundancy• Brittle, Expensive to Maintain• Tribal Knowledge, Zero Documentation
Point 2 Point, P2P (Pain to Pain) Integration is Kerplunk
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• 12 systems = 66 connections
• 15 systems = 105 connections
• We needed a way to simplify the many-to-many connections issue
It’s the Math, stupid!
N x (N-1) / 2
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PCL’s Enterprise Integration Framework
PCL’s Anthony Henday
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Why
Dell Boomi?
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PCL’s iPaaS Objectives
Quickly Configureand Deploy Reusable
Cloud-based Integration Services
Master PCL Data Employees,
Subcontractors, Projects, Clients,
Equipment, Tools, Project Cost Codes
Practical, Non-invasive Data Governanceand Stewardship
SaaS MaturitySecure, Scalable,
Centralized Monitoring, Logging and Alerting
Access and Provision Any Data, in any Format, with any
Protocol
Low-cost Solution Provided by an
Integration Partner, Not a Vendor
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Dell Boomi Architecture
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AtomSphere – Quickly Configure Integrations
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The Dell Boomi Atom
• Lightweight, distributed run-time engine
• Behind the firewall deployment for on-premise apps or in the cloud for SaaS
• Handle any combination of SaaS-to-SaaS or SaaS-to-On-premise integration from one platform
• Clustering capability (molecule)
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For 4 Years,
Gartner Names Dell Boomi an iPaaS Magic Quadrant Leader
Some Validation is Nice, Too
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Tangible
Results
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SaaS to SaaS: BIM 360 and Azure Analytics
• Nightly integration of 20,000+ building information management documents (450 GB) to Azure Blob storage for Power BI consumption
• Build and deploy: 1 week
• Legacy integration run time: days
• Boomi run time: 4.5 hours
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On Premise, SaaS, MDM: Salesforce and Deltek CRM
• Master “construction project opportunity” entity for CRM processes
• Time to Market: Integrations deployed before the project charter completed
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SaaS, On Premise, MDM: Fusion HCM and PCL Apps
• Provide employee data across PCL applications and business processes
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iPaaS and Dell Boomi Delivers Value
• Exceptional time to value
• Reduce complexity
• Reusable integration services
• Reduced data integration costs
• Career opportunities for IT staff
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What PCL Learned
Crawl, Walk, Run Demonstrate Business Value
Test, Test and Test Again… and Again
Watch the Last Mile, Endpoints
Be Canonical Don’t Forget Governance
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Thank You for Your Time and Attention
Brian Kmet, [email protected] Manager, Business TechnologyPCL Constructors Inc.
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