Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

This is a business computing term for the plans, methods and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating and coordinating the computer applications in Enterprise.

Typically, an enterprise has existing Legacy applications and databases and want to continue to use them while adding and migrating to a new set of applications that exploit the internet, e-commerce, extranet and other new technologies. EAI may involve developing a new total view of an enterprise's business and its applications fit into the new view, and then devising way to efficiency reuse what already exist while adding new applications and data.

EAI encompasses methodologies such as

• Object-oriented programming,.
• Distributed, cross-platform program communication using message brokers with Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and COM+.
• The modification of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to fit new objective.
• Enterprise-wide content and data distribution using common database and data standard implemented with the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
• Middleware, message queuing and, other approaches.

[Source : techtarget.com]

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