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to API integrations with vendors . It ' s a broad partnership in terms of digital transformation , product development , infrastructure and they are our licensed Microsoft CSP .”
What do the next 12 to 18 months look like for NNR ? The next 12 to 18 months are going to continue to be dynamic for NNR . They are aiming to take on their technical debt through a massive database consolidation , aiming to go from the 52 databases that they either control or deal with on a day-to-day basis and instead reduce that number down to 12 to 15 .
Sullivan says : “ That ' s a big effort to reduce our technical debt , to make sure we ' re going to the new age with less baggage . We ' re going to be quickly expanding our offering through NNR Connect and rolling that out to our office and global customers . We ' re also looking to rapidly improve our connectivity speed and efficacy , bring on new vendors and customers , and connect to them electronically at a much faster rate utilising everything from restful APIs to the toolkit that we have to keep around in terms of PDI integrations . We ' re trying to take 1,100 different screens in our ERP and get that down to really what it needs to be , to declutter as much as possible . In other words , it ' s not all about expansion right now , as much as it is about reduction and concentration .”
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