Application Integration Software
If you are like most business leaders, you've probably spent millions of
dollars and thousands of man-hours buying and deploying best-of-breed enterprise
applications to run various aspects of your business. And you've probably spent
nearly as much time developing and maintaining "home grown" applications to
perform functions unique to your business. Unfortunately, these systems are
inherently incompatible, and almost everything your business does involves more
than one of them. The only way to unlock the full value of those systems is to
integrate them so they can seamlessly interact with each other.
Enterprise application integration (EAI) software provides a common framework
for integrating incompatible and distributed systems, making it faster and
easier to tie together applications and web services so you can integrate them
into business processes that span your organization. EAI reduces the complexity
of your IT infrastructure and dramatically improves its reliability,
flexibility, and scalability – giving you the ability to focus on improving how
your business runs instead of worrying about whether or not your infrastructure
will be scalable or flexible enough to support new initiatives or capitalize on
perpetual shifts in the market.