EAI – What is it?
EAI – Enterprise Application Integration. Currently the toast of the consulting classes, replacement to ERP, the new universal IT panacea.
As with everything else there is a glint of gold in this but you do have to dig hard to find it.
There are a wide variety of so called EAI solutions.
As with all IT, the only way that an EAI solution will work for you, is if your IT system currently works for you.
EAI is not a magic bullet. It will not recreate your business process making it bigger, better, and easy to use. If your system already has problem areas, it will help make them bigger and better and easier to see. That’s why senior management is interested in it. It can quickly and easily debundle the information hierarchies and fiefdoms that some Managers & Department heads have created to enhance their own position.
EAI at its most basic level is the integration of dissimilar application systems to share information from them via a common user......
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