Demonstrate your strategic perspective and corporate citizenship to your enterprise. Strategic thinkers are more likely to move up in organizations. Reduce post-production problems such as systems integration fixes and data inconsistency issues between systems. Save you time if the enterprise is providing useful re-usable components. One consideration is whether your enterprise has the right environment for integration.
Management needs to reward good corporate citizenship and project integration.
The culture of the enterprise is team oriented. The enterprise has an overall architecture that is available for projects. There should be various models portraying the enterprise's information, processes, business rules, technologies, goals, and resources. There are system architects, data architects and other overall corporate professionals available to projects to help integrate the project and provide re-usable components. If these are not in place, it may be futile to try to integrate your application.