EAI - Enterprise Application Integration

What is EAI or Enterprise Application Integration?

EAI or Enterprise Application Integration is the means of connecting different software applications internally within a busines or between two more more businesses. e.g. linking your order management application to your financial application.

Challenges

One of the challenges facing modern organisations is giving all their workers complete, transparent and real-time access to information. Many of the legacy applications still in use today were developed using outdated and proprietary technologies, thus creating information black holes across departments within an organisation.

These systems stopped the seamless flow of information from one application to the other. EAI, aims to reduce and eliminate many of these problems and help you on your way to a truly dynamic supply network.

The Benefits of EAI

EAI now has a greater goal, and attempts to enable new and innovative ways of leveraging organisational knowledge to create further competitive advantages for the enterprise.

In today’s competitive and dynamic business environment, applications such as Supply Chain Management, Business Intelligence and Integrated Collaboration environments have become crucial for organisations that need to maintain their competitive advantage.

For generations, systems have been built that have served a single purpose for a single set of users without sufficient thought to integrating these systems into larger systems and multiple applications. EAI is the solution to the unanticipated outcome of generations of development undertaken without a central vision or strategy.

The demand of the enterprise is to share data and processes without having to make sweeping changes to the applications or data structures. Only by creating a method of accomplishing this integration can EAI be both functional and cost-effective.

How Kewill can help

When different systems can’t share their data effectively, they create information bottlenecks that require human intervention in the form of decision making or data entry.

With a properly deployed EAI architecture, organisations are able to focus most of their efforts on their core competencies instead of focusing on managing their workflow.

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