All Together Now: Enterprise Application Integration

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All Together Now: Enterprise Application Integration

by Andre Leclerc

March 10, 2000


EAI is the process of integrating any working legacy systems (pre-ERP days) and enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, supply-chain), with other existing applications, data files and databases contained in any network connecting companies, processors and applications and to do so in a non-intrusive fashion, which requires little or no change to the integrated system. The key word here is "non-intrusive."

Application integration in its simplest form is the encapsulation of an existing application by a software component which acts as a functional interface to that application. In its widest form it represents a corporate-wide strategy to manage the enterprise as a set of integrated cohesive processes.

Is EAI the latest trendy buzzword or a new wave that will change the way IT is done. Will it prove to be just another pointless technology or a breakthrough in distributed computing. Will it be the new post-Y2K CASE tool which fails under stress or is it finally what we needed to achieve the next generation holographic business mind-set.

Let me just say that my stock portfolio has recently been enriched with EAI stocks. I believe that EAI is a breakthrough technology which will replace most of our current system development methods.



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