Enterprise Application Integration

Enterprise application integration (EAI) is the use of software and architectural principles to bring together (integrate) a set of enterprise computer applications.

Without integration, enterprise computing often takes the form of islands of automation , where the value of individual systems is not maximised because they are working in partial or full isolation, resulting in a tangled unmaintainable mess, commonly referred to as spaghetti.

The optimal approach to EAI is to use a message bus to connect numerous separate systems together. Individual applications can publish messages to the bus, and also subscribe to receive certain messages from the bus. With EAI each application only requires one connection, which is to the bus. Attending to EAI involves looking at the system of systems . Such message bus approaches can be extemely scalable, and also highly evolvable.

We Support ebXML

Integration also requires communicating with your trading partners. ebXML is an evolutionary standards-based framework based on Internet technologies and designed to accommodate a wide range of e-business transactions ranging from established standards such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to more progressive Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based technologies. ebXML is unique in achieving widespread vertical industry endorsement including in the retail/consumer packaged goods (UCCNet and GCI), automotive (Automotive Industry Action Group) and travel (Open Travel Alliance) industries. ebXML's promise as an architecture stems from its ability to coordinate and interoperate several lower-level XML and Internet standards easily and cost effectively. Because of ebXML's open nature, business partners will be able to communicate using ebXML-compliant vendor products.

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