Enterprise application integration: Time to market imperative driving investment in EAI

By Steve Lee and Lane F. Cooper
BizTechReports.Com

The ability to see reality as it actually is…and not as it might be…and then respond swiftly in an appropriate manner has elevated the importance of enterprise application integration (EAI) initiatives for businesses today. Managers are wrestling today with how to capture transactions and other business critical data in real-time, correlate information across applications to establish a clear vision of how current developments are affecting the enterprise, and then take action that exploits market opportunities and deflects competitive threats.

IT architects and IT managers are thus being asked to address these urgent requirements of visibility and agility while managing layer upon layer of legacy systems that may or may not interoperate with any degree of simplicity. For many EAI is providing an important part of the answer.

“Changes and additions of features to existing systems over successive generations of system development have introduced greater complexity to enterprise systems,” explains IBM’s Leif Davidsen, Application and Integration Middleware Software division. “This has also contributed to greater costs and increased risks of failure for many organizations. That is why we are seeing so much intense interest in enterprise application integration.”

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