Discovery informatics integration involves substantial time, effort, and investment. To ensure an optimal integration solution and successful implementation, companies must promote business integration as a prominent factor in the equation. Only after thoroughly understanding a company’s overall business strategy, as well as its organization, processes, and people, can an informatics supplier provide meaningful guidance on the best approach to informatics integration.
Aleksandar Ruzicic of MDL Consulting adds: “Too often companies attempt to shortcut the difficulties inherent in business integration. For example, they try to integrate data across an organization without first standardizing data capture across their chemistry and biology teams. Discovery informatics managers need to address the trade-offs between harmonizing data capture, thereby enabling simple integration for searching/ browsing, and ‘brute force’ data integration.”
