Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Enhance the Business Process with a Service Oriented Architecture
The need for business collaboration through enterprise application integration has never been greater - it is an absolute competitive differentiator in an increasingly global economy. Today's business environment is motivating companies large and small to be ready to exchange data and interact with each other as never before. This requires an integration strategy at the technology level as well as at the business level. Intensifying the integration problem is that many companies, having adopted successive generations of incomplete solutions, now possess a decades-old "accidental architecture". The accidental architecture is made up of an inefficient web of point-to-point connections and proprietary islands of information. This costly and confused tangle of different, disparate integration approaches does not add up to a complete long-term solution.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) provides a framework for integrating incompatible and distributed systems, making it faster and easier to couple applications and Web services so that corporations can integrate them into business processes that extend over the global enterprise. EAI reduces the complexity of a company's IT infrastructure and dramatically improves the flexibility, reliability and scalability to support any new service oriented business initiatives or capitalize on constant changes and shifts in technology or the market.
Progress OpenEdge® provides technology and solutions to implement Enterprise Application Integration best practices and strategies that let various business applications, databases, and computing platforms communicate and collaborate with each other by automatically routing and transforming critical information so it gets to anyone, anywhere, anytime. The OpenEdge business platform provides an integration framework to an organization's operational processes and distributed systems using the best approach for the particular need all based on industry-standards like Java, Microsoft .NET, XML, messaging services, SOA, or Web services.
