Business Process and Application Integration

EAI can be used for different purposes:

  • Data (information) integration: ensuring that information in multiple systems is kept consistent. This is also known as EII.
  • Process integration: linking business processes across applications.
  • Vendor independence: extracting business policies or rules from applications and implementing them in the EAI system, so that even if one of the business applications is replaced with a different vendor's application, the business rules do not have to be re-implemented.
  • Common facade: An EAI system could front-end a cluster of applications, providing a single consistent access interface to these applications and shielding users from having to learn to interact with different applications.

Orckestra consultants have demonstrated through multiple projects that BizTalk 2006 is a proven EAI which allows companies to successfully allow heterogeneous systems to exchange, transform, aggregate and publish information, orchestrate complex business processes and provide views on their progress and efficiency through business activity monitoring.