Systems integration project
Introduction
Enterprise application integration, also known by the acronym EAI (enterprise application integration*) or EII (enterprise information integration), is defined as the use of software and systems architecture principles to integrate a set of applications within any company.
Rationale for the EAI
It is the process of connecting applications with each other to exchange operational or financial information. When these systems cannot share their information effectively, bottlenecks are created that require human intervention in the form of decision making or in the entry of the information itself. With a properly implemented EAI architecture, organizations can focus most of their efforts on creating competencies that generate value, instead of focusing on the coordination of operational tasks.
For several generations, company systems have served a specific purpose for a single user or group of users, which act as the interface of said system with the rest of the organization, limiting its connection with other modern or broader systems in the company and even more so, due to the growing demand of companies to share data and use it in their processes without having to make changes to their applications or data structures.
One of the challenges facing modern organizations is giving their employees complete information in real time. Many of the applications in use today rely on old technologies, which is why these systems face difficulties when moving this information between applications.
EAI, as a discipline, seeks to solve many of these problems, as well as create new paradigms to, certainly, improve organizations, trying to transcend the objective of connecting individual applications, to be a mechanism that increases knowledge within the organization and creates future competitive advantages for the company.
Improve connectivity
Contenido
La integración de aplicaciones para empresas ha incrementado su importancia porque la computación en las empresas frecuentemente toma la forma de islas de información. Esto ocasiona que el valor de los sistemas individuales no sea aprovechado al máximo debido a su aislamiento.