Enterprise Application Integration
LINKING APPLICATIONS INTELLIGENTLY
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is an integration framework composed of a collection of technologies and services which form a middleware enabling unrestricted sharing of data and business processes among any connected application or data sources within in a public or private enterprise.
EAI involves a process of linking applications together within a single organisation. Its main objective is to support all business processes under different environments by delivering complete utilisation of existing IT systems. EAI simplifies and automates business processes to the greatest extent possible. It avoids having to make costly sweeping changes to existing applications or data structures.
SPAGHETTI JUNCTIONS
If integration is applied without following a structured EAI approach, point-to-point connections eventually multiply across your organisation’s IT environment. In such scenarios, new software applications are added on an impromptu basis without much thought on their dependencies. As this practice replicates itself, it results in a tangled mess difficult to maintain commonly referred to as spaghetti junctions – a reference to the programming equivalent of spaghetti code.
EAI, however, is not just about sharing data between applications since it focuses on sharing both business data and business process. Digital Summit’s middleware analysts working on EAI-related projects involve themselves with looking at a collection of task-oriented or dedicated systems that pool their resources and capabilities together to obtain a new, more complex, ‘meta-system’ that offers more functionality and performance. The sum of its disjointed parts is unified to work better.
UNIFIED USER INTERFACE
Digital Summit offers comprehensive solution development and integration services through a unified user interface – a universal software system which connects people, information and processes. The function of such interface is to provide users access to required applications and data interchange among applications when required by business processes.
Interface customisation enables a user to access applications that only the user requires. This means that the interface is customised according to an organisational structure, business model and the user’s own work role and function.
BENEFITS OF EMPLOYING EAI
Digital Summit’s EAI services include architecture, design and development of application solutions through use of modern development technologies. Integration solutions we design adhere to world recognised standards like XML, EDI and others.
Using the most advanced technologies, Digital Summit ensures fast integration of software solutions and databases within your organisation with the purpose of delivering reliable data interchange.
Our middleware analysts would be happy to sit down with you and work with your IT Group to discuss, design, and implement an enterprise application integration system befitting your organisation.