Business Integration: Luxottica

Challenge

Luxottica Group was formed from a variety of companies and chains. This required major systems integration across multiple companies. IT resources were spending significant amounts of time in maintenance with almost no time left for additional growth and technology improvement. Resources were stretched to complete routine tasks, let alone integrate additional companies into the Luxottica network.

Solution

Perficient provided integration expertise to simplify Luxottica’s architecture by tying the various systems together using an ESB. The goal was to eliminate the complexity of integration by using a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) that was more robust, less complex, and easy to maintain. Perficient’s QSR engagement also involved the development of SOA and integration best practices, and development of a SOA roadmap. Luxottica can now integrate the resulting services into a variety of projects. The SOA roadmap provided further benefit by providing a view on how to implement, and plans for governance, further training, and the incremental acquisition of technology.

Features Articulated vision on how SOA will help the business Consistent back-office infrastructure integrates all corporate brands store transactions Real monitoring of events Centralized data transformation logic & wire level exception handling/auditing capability	Benefits Imparted the value of SOA Improved data quality and capability to process transactions Migration path for disparate POS systems to one POS system