In today’s fiercely competitive economy, companies are realizing that new initiatives such as e-Business, customer relationship management and business intelligence go hand-in-hand with a proven organization-wide enterprise application integration (EAI) strategy. The goal of EAI is to integrate and streamline business processes across different applications and business units while allowing
employees, decision makers and business partners to readily access corporate and customer data no matter where it resides. More and more, EAI involves integrating information and processes not only across the enterprise but also beyond organizational walls to encompass business-to-business
integration.
Companies soon come to realize that an effective EAI strategy involves solving integration problems at several different flow levels: transport flow, data flow, information flow, process flow and business-to-business flow. By flow we mean the delivery of meaningful information to subscribed systems and
users in a smooth, continuous stream of bits of information in real-time or near real-time as opposed to the bulk loading of large batches of data at selected intervals.
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