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Corporations are tend to have disparate Enterprise application either they may be standard ERP applications or homegrown legacy applications which are very critical to the business. A typical enterprise may consist of homegrown systems, ERP, mainframe apps, legacy systems. EAI comprises the challenge of efficiently linking and integrating these diverse systems and applications across the enterprise, allowing the organization to keep pace with and respond to market changes in real time.
EAI, Enterprise Application Integration is defined as combinations of Business processes, Platforms, standards and applications resulting in the seamless integration of two or more enterprise systems. Although EAI is often associated with integration systems within a corporate, EAI may also refer to the integration of enterprise systems of across different corporations and trading partners outside the firewall resulting in B2B integration
Why Innominds
With extensive experience in EAI, global delivery and management capabilities, we bring the best of practices and solutions to the customers. We leverage our strength in enterprise applications, legacy systems in terms of technology, functionality and business standards to create a seamless integration across these disparate enterprise applications. Our EAI adapter framework, J2EE connectors build on XML standards minimizes the integration time significantly resulting in huge cost savings, time to market.
Innominds Strengths and Service offerings: |
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EAI requirement analysis and solution scoping. |
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Impact Analysis and Risk assessment |
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EAI product recommendations and solution offerings. |
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Development and deployment of EAI solutions. |
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ROI analysis. |
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Implementation and Integration Services |
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Requirements |
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Requirement Analysis, Solution Architecture, Project Planning, Infrastructure and EAI product recommendation. |
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Integration |
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WorkFlow & Process modeling |
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Business rules |
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Interface design and development of APIs for non-standard legacy systems |
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Middleware: |
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TIBCO |
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WebMethods/Active, |
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SeeBeyond |
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Message Brokers and Message Queuing |
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Standards: EDI (x12, EDIFACT), xml (Rosattanet, Biztalk), HIPAA (Healthcare), SWIFT (Financial Services) |
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Innominds Differentiator
We provide thought leadership to leverage the power of technology to deliver better business solutions. Vast knowledge of most of the standard enterprise applications and their functionality, working knowledge of legacy applications and systems, in-depth knowledge of business processes and standards. Strategic investment in the latest EAI technologies, middle layer tools and standards. Investment in advanced strategic research and analysis on industry focused, emerging technologies helps us build competencies, components, frameworks and enable us to develop and follow best practices and higher standards around them.
What is involved in EAI?
EAI is very involved and complex, and incorporates every level of an enterprise system – its architecture, Standards, hardware, software and processes. EAI involves integration at the following levels: |
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Business Process Integration (BPI): When integrating business processes, a corporation must define, enable and manage the processes for the exchange of enterprise information among diverse business systems. This allows organizations to streamline operations, reduce costs and improve responsiveness to customer demands. Elements here include process management, process modeling, and workflow, which involves the combination of tasks, procedures, organizations, required input and output information, and tools needed for each step in a business process. |
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Application Integration: At this level of integration, the goal is to bring data or a function from one application together with that of another application that together provide near real-time integration. Application Integration is used for, to name a few, B2B integration, implementing customer relationship management (CRM) systems that are integrated with a company's backend applications, web integration, and building Web sites that leverage multiple business systems. Custom integration development may also be necessary, particularly when integrating a legacy application with a newly implemented ERP application. |
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Data Integration: In order for both Application Integration and Business Process Integration to succeed, the integration of data and database systems must be tackled. Prior to integration, data must be identified (where it is located), cataloged, and a metadata model must be built (a master guide for various data stores). Once these three steps are finished, data can then be shared/distributed across database systems. |
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Standards of Integration: In order to achieve full Data Integration, standard formats for the data must be selected. Standards of Integration are those that promote the sharing and distribution of information and business data – standards that are at the core of Enterprise Application Integration. These include COM+/DCOM, CORBA, EDI, Rosattanet, BizTalk and others. |
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Platform Integration: To complete the system integration, the underlying architecture, software and hardware, the separate needs of the heterogeneous network must be integrated. Platform Integration deals with the processes and tools that are required to allow these systems to communicate, both optimally and securely, so data can be passed through different applications without difficulty. For example, figuring out a way for an NT machine to pass information reliably to a UNIX machine is a large task for integrating an entire corporate system. |
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