Every company establishes itself with the aim to expand its operations, capture a high market share, and diversify operations. But with the vast areas that the company deals in, it gets tricky to further expand its activities. That is where integration comes into play.Â
Companies consider merging departments within their own organisation or merging with other companies and that helps the company in streamlining its operations, reducing cost, shifting either production or some segment to the collaborative company. This leads to better control of its operations leading it to get a competitive advantage.
Integration comes with its added advantages. A firm could purchase or acquire its material supplier to have control over its supply. It would help in cost reduction and further influence the quality of products.Â
Creating an integration strategy might look tricky but when you have the right tools at your disposal, planning the integration seems easier. With the same thought, these templates have been curated to enable you to make the best out of your planning. Continue reading to check these out!Â
Template 1: System Integration PPT Set
This template helps in drawing a basic plan, which helps in the integration of various systems, processes, and technologies so that work is efficient. The main highlights are - the products from different vendors, applications from different vendors, the cloud, which can be private, public, or hybrid, data from diverse domains, customisation, and new feature implementation. It is this balanced integration that would help in mergers or gain control over the supply chain or growth of company operations at the same industry level.
Template 2: System Integration PPT Slide
This template shows what else can be integrated into business so that it can enhance operations accordingly. It includes CRM, which allows the development of meaningful customer relationships. The database integration will help maintain good data. The legacy system will help in critical day-to-day operations and perform important services reliably. Business integration processes can be seamlessly done into each other for smoother and faster work. Internet application integrations help in sharing common data and let multiple users work on the same set without disrupting others' work. ERP tools help a company run successfully, including all its segments.
Template 3: System Integration PPT Set
This template helps in system integration by segregating it into three steps - the planning stage, the implementation stage, and the support stage. Post planning, the implementation strategy, and support are mainly around web, mobile, and data. After the decision on integration, it is important to ensure that necessary support is provided for workflow. Integration of systems around mobile, web, and data will make sure that everything is functioning smoothly and everyone involved in the system has access to all the data and can work simultaneously.
Template 4: Pros and Cons of Horizontal Integration Strategy
This template helps in analyzing the pros and cons of the horizontal integration strategy. The pros can be its ability to enter a new market - in case of a merger, the company can enter into a new market. Product differentiation helps increase the company’s features. Cost Advantage helps manage higher production at lower cost, increases market power, and helps customers of old suppliers become bigger. The cons could be regulatory scrutiny - seeing laws that prevent big corporations from mergers, and reduced flexibility - bigger organizations come with this problem; destroying value rather than creating it is the biggest issue that hampers collaborative implementation.
Template 5: Integration StrategyÂ
This template helps in seeing a glimpse of integration strategy wherein merging companies combine two or more cultures into a new composite culture. Both companies can have different cultures, and this new culture that has been formed can lead to better working hours, dispersed decision-making, and written communication. The main feature of this is that it's built on equal trust in each other’s cultural strengths and weaknesses; it also helps in improving cultures by considering the best of both firms. One company might have some features and operational synergies that are better than the other. Joining the two together leads to choosing the best for both and forming a new culture altogether.
Template 6: Current scenario - Year-over-year revenue growth projections
This template covers a graphical representation of forecasted revenue growth. It also includes key insights such as the upward trend of the annual growth rate and the annual growth rate for upcoming years. Key insights can be drawn using the data—whether there has been an upward trend in growth or a slowdown in growth. Once this is seen, it also helps in projecting the company's growth rate. Strong revenue growth would then serve as an indicator for the company to make altered decisions.Â
Template 7: Company policies for employee-friendly workplace
This template covers the policies for maintaining an employee-friendly company culture. It includes work policies such as hybrid work policy, flexible working hours, training and upskilling workshops, etc. The hybrid work policy will help attract and retain diverse talent, increasing productivity and innovation; flexible working hours will help improve employee satisfaction and increase employee productivity levels. Training and upskilling workshops will help in employee retention, increase customer satisfaction, and attract new talent that would reduce the skill gap in the company.
Template 8: Human Resource Management System implementation roll-out planÂ
This template covers the HRMS deployment process for integration. It includes steps such as data migration, system integration, function testing, information pack distribution, announcement, and system launch and tracking. Systems help in data migration from existing systems and user setup, integrations will lead to new system integration into employee space, testing will help in notifications test, communications will help in packing of information, and then it follows the announcement and system launch that is followed by system usage tracking that provides necessary supplementary training.Â
Template 9: Solutions provided by new Human Resource management system
This template covers major systems included in the new HRMs. It includes features like document management, applicant tracking, recruiting, onboarding, administration, performance appraisal, and management. The document management system is followed by onboarding and then the tracking system. After this, performance is analyzed to determine compensation for the employees. The engagement and payroll management system is analyzed, and then a professional learning setup is created, after which the employees can self-assess themselves. Time and attendance management can also be done using this system.
Template 10: Benefits of implementing applicant tracking and recruiting system
This template covers the major impact of implementing candidate tracking and hiring software. It includes benefits such as free and premium job posting channels, an AI recommendation system, an enriched candidate profile, etc. Free and premium job channels help boost candidate applications by posting jobs on thousands of free channels; the AI recommendation system leverages all data related to applications to create extensive scorecards; the enriched candidate profiles are then scrutinized to find candidates in one click and portrayal of companies brand on career page also helps in enhancing hiring and make it efficient.
Final Word
Bringing separate entities together in one place will lead to end-to-end integration, which will only help create a better work ethic zone that is diversified, more efficient, reduces errors, and facilitates smooth collaboration between spheres of the organisation.











