Designed for enterprises with heterogeneous system landscapes, the boTec DataBridge connects your business applications without data duplication, without custom developments in your core systems, and without multi-year migration projects. This enables consolidated reporting in hours instead of days, supports operational decisions based on current data rather than yesterday’s exports, and provides an integration architecture that scales with your business instead of constraining it.
1. Integration expertise since 1994
boTec has been connecting heterogeneous enterprise systems for over 30 years, long before “digital transformation” became a management buzzword. This experience spans refineries with dozens of connected systems to manufacturing enterprises with international site structures.
Unlike generalist middleware providers, our entire focus is enterprise information integration:
- Deep domain knowledge in process and manufacturing industries
- Proven architectural patterns refined through hundreds of implementations
- Understanding of real-world constraints that theoretical solutions often ignore
- Long-term partnerships with customers who have relied on our solutions for decades
With customers across Europe and beyond, DataBridge evolves with its users-driven by a community of industrial enterprises who share the same challenges and speak the same language.
2. Referential integration: link, don’t copy
DataBridge follows a fundamentally different philosophy than traditional integration approaches. Instead of copying data into intermediate repositories where it immediately begins to age, DataBridge maintains live references to source systems and resolves queries in real time.
This approach eliminates an entire category of integration problems:
- No synchronisation lag between source systems and integration layer
- No reconciliation problems when data changes in the source
- No stale copies causing trust issues in KPIs and business analysis
- No duplicate storage costs for replicated data sets
- Single source of truth remains in the authoritative system
Product structures stay in PLM; inventory data stays in ERP; process values stay in the historian. DataBridge provides unified access without data duplication-current information from authoritative sources, every time.
3. System-agnostic architecture: connect what you have
DataBridge integrates with the systems you operate today - regardless of vendor, technology generation, or deployment model. The platform connects ERP, PLM, MES, LIMS, historians, and specialised applications through their native interfaces.
No forced system replacements, no vendor lock-in:
- ERP systems: SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, and others
- PLM platforms: Teamcenter, Windchill, 3DEXPERIENCE, and others
- Process systems: AVEVA PI System, Honeywell PHD, Aspen InfoPlus.21, AVEVA Historian
- Production systems: MES, LIMS, quality management, maintenance systems
- Standard interfaces: OData, REST, SOAP, OPC, database connectors
Your existing investments remain protected. DataBridge adds value to the systems you have rather than requiring you to replace them.
4. Bidirectional data flow across system boundaries
Enterprise integration is inherently bidirectional-engineering needs commercial data, production needs design data, controlling needs operational data. DataBridge supports all directions through a unified architecture rather than separate point-to-point interfaces.
Seamless information flow wherever it’s needed:
- Engineering ↔ Commercial: product structures, costs, inventory, supplier status
- Production ↔ Planning: actual vs. planned, capacity, material availability
- Operations ↔ Business: process values, KPIs, quality data, compliance reporting
- Consistent transformation rules applied uniformly across all data flows
- Unified monitoring for complete visibility into integration health
One platform for all integration scenarios-not a proliferation of custom interfaces.
5. Semantic harmonisation through Business Integration Models
Different systems conceptualise the same reality through different semantic lenses. What PLM calls a part, ERP calls a material. Engineering units differ from commercial units. Classification schemas diverge across applications. DataBridge bridges these gaps through persistent mapping models.
Harmonisation without forced standardisation:
- Business Application Models provide lightweight abstraction layers for each connected system
- Business Integration Models establish shared understanding across systems
- Automatic translation between system-specific terminologies
- Preserved native concepts in each system-no forced vocabulary changes
- Unit of measure transformations handled centrally and consistently
Each system keeps its language; DataBridge ensures mutual understanding.
6. Incremental implementation: start small, scale continuously
DataBridge does not require a big-bang implementation. The architecture supports starting with a focused pilot and expanding systematically as value is demonstrated and experience accumulates.
A pragmatic path to enterprise integration:
- Pilot in weeks, not months – demonstrate value before major commitment
- Prioritise by business impact – address the highest-value data flows first
- Learn and adapt – each integration builds knowledge for the next
- Manage risk – never change the entire landscape simultaneously
- Grow with requirements – add systems and data flows as needs evolve
Total cost of ownership remains predictable because the architecture accommodates change as a normal condition, not an exception requiring major rework.
7. Industrial domain expertise that understands your challenges
Choosing DataBridge means working with a team that knows industrial operations from the inside. boTec’s consultants understand the realities of production environments, the pressures of delivery commitments, and the complexity of multi-site coordination.
A partner who speaks your language:
- Consultants with industrial backgrounds who understand manufacturing and process operations
- Responsive support that grasps the urgency when production systems are affected
- Implementation methodology proven in demanding industrial environments
- Continuous evolution driven by real customer requirements, not theoretical roadmaps
- Long-term commitment to customers who measure partnerships in decades, not project phases
DataBridge: integration expertise meets industrial reality
With DataBridge, you choose a solution built specifically for enterprises with complex, heterogeneous system landscapes. Thirty years of integration expertise, architectural principles that preserve existing investments, and deep understanding of industrial operations-an integration platform designed for and with those who cannot afford integration failures.