Enterprise Application Integration

In today's rapidly changing technology and business landscape, application integration has become a cornerstone to any successful enterprise information systems strategy. When done right, EAI promotes a highly agile organization.

IT executives have been under increasing pressure to make IT more adaptable to support business change. Transforming IT functions to meet this demand begins with migrating the array of autonomous "stovepipe" applications to an integrated catalogue of business services. These "stovepipes" propagate information silos wherein identical data elements are stored in multiple 'island' locations making data integration virtually impossible, leading to process inefficiencies.

We assist our clients with rethinking and consolidating their islands of automation. Our methodology spans all aspects of the EAI lifecycle, beginning with developing the architecture blueprint based on integration use cases and governance, designing the Enterprise Service Bus and concluding with its deployment. We work with our clients to develop and implement new business services to rapidly support their changing business requirements and enable new business processes at reduced cost. We do this by systematically building and integrating applications using a unified approach (leveraging SOA, MOM and XML), a unified architecture and - where feasible - a single platform for application development and integration.

We have solid experience helping our clients 'link' applications to simplify and automate business processes by leveraging existing applications and data structures through reuse. The result of which we call Composite Applications: applications that combine integration of existing application functions with new business functions to support the new processes required by the business. Ultimately, organizational agility is realized by the unrestricted sharing of data and business processes among 'linked' applications within the organization.