EAI: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: EAI

  • enterprise application integration

Additional Resources

Reducing a Telecom Giant's IT Budget Through an Effective EAI Strategy
Australia's leading telecom service provider decided to base its future IT integration on EAI to ensure easy interoperability between its 2000 odd heterogeneous applications. It partnered with Infosys to revamp its Enterprise Application Integration EAI strategy. The client, through its partnership with Infosys, envisaged halving its $980 million annual IT...
Tags: Middleware, Enterprise software, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, EAI, Infosys Technologies Ltd., IT budget, telecommunications, enterprise application, information technology, partnership, strategy
Case studies
The CRM Data Integration Challenge: Can Semantic Integration Improve Success?
Enterprise Application Integration EAI tools are used in most large enterprises and are very effective in integrating complex applications, like ERP and CRM. The catch is that each EAI initiative requires specialized skills to develop custom coding, which can't be reused. So, while EAI does a good job of facilitating...
Tags: Enterprise software, Middleware, EAI, enterprise application, CRM, analytics, data warehouse, business intelligence, ERP, storage, job, tool
White papers 2003-11-20
A Systems Integrators Perspective on Business Process Management, Workflow and EAI
Over use of the term process management by consultants, analysts and vendors has led to some confusion among customers of different automation technologies.The situation is particularly acute because workflow engines are often used in the BPM technology stack of middleware and EAI vendors a relatively recent development. Systems integrators have...
Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Enterprise software, Strategy, Computer Sciences Corp., workflow engine, EAI, systems integrator, BPM, Process Management, middleware, business process, information technology
White papers
A Conceptual Model For EAI Adoption In An e-Government Environment
The non-integrated nature of Local Government Authority LGA Information Systems IS is strongly associated with the inconsistency and duplication of data, reduction in data integrity and quality, and high operational and maintenance cost. The reason is that legacy IS within the LGAs are usually tailored to support particular business processes...
Tags: Business Process, Brunel University, EAI, Operational Planning, E-government, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Government
White papers 2006-07-06
Business Process Management Requires a Commitment to Components
The EAI sub discipline known as Business Process Management BPM or Business Process Integration BPI has now evolved to the point where EAI vendors are touting their ability to seamlessly integrate an organization's intra- and inter enterprise business processes. Although choosing the correct BPM "Engine" to meet the organization's integration...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Enterprise software, ebizQ, BPM, business process, EAI, business logic, benefit, information technology, tool, software
White papers 2002-05-13
Bell Canada: CGI and Project Omega Assist in Bell Sympatico's High-Speed Customer Handling
CGI felt that Project Omega would provide a platform upon which projects could leverage the Enterprise Application Integration EAI infrastructure to access Bell's legacy systems with mechanized order processing and data retrieval from non-integrated sales and service channels. With the first release of Omega, Bell sought to electronically submit service...
Tags: Scripting languages, Enterprise software, CGI Group Inc., Bell Canada, CGI, EAI, enterprise application, ordering system, data entry, legacy system, training, sales
Case studies
The Three Faces of BPM
On the surface, the name really does say it all: Business Process Management software helps organizations manage their business processes. It's a deceptively simple concept, however, because there is no single accepted definition of BPM, a hodgepodge term that seems to encompass everything from workflow to Enterprise Resource Planning ERP...
Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, Enterprise software, ebizQ, BPM, business process, EAI, enterprise application, ERP
White papers 2005-04-10
The Future of Business Process Management
A few years ago, many organizations turned to BPM business process management for straightforward improvements in their business processes through automation and integration. At the time, they were looking for the next step beyond traditional integration solutions or EAI products - something with more of a process-orientation. But in most...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Enterprise software, ebizQ, BPM, EAI, business process, enterprise application
White papers 2005-10-02
BPM ASPs
With the promise of big profits in the Business Process Management BPM market, vendors from all over the technology map-pure-play BPM, as well as Enterprise Application Integration EAI, Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, content management suites and so on - are developing or modifying their product portfolios so they can offer...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Enterprise software, Information Today Inc., BPM, Process Management, business process, EAI, content management, enterprise application, ERP
White papers 2006-05-26
The Third Wave: BPM 2005 - A Slight of Hand Enroute to the BPMS
A BPM server federates the preexisting technologies of workflow, EAI and business rules into the existing technology stack. While a BPM server can be used to automate business processes BPA, the BPMS provides the capability to manage business processes BPM, that is, put them under lifecycle management to drive ongoing...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Enterprise software, BPM, business process, lifecycle management, EAI, analysis, tool
White papers 2005-01-01
Business Process Management - A New Glue or the Old Soft Shoe?
Business process management BPM software helps monitor human and automated processes, automate previously human processes, process something still managed by humans or manage something previously processed by humans. A BPM application monitors business processes, and automates workflow or serves as enterprise application integration EAI tool. These products helps to identify...
Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Enterprise software, Strategy, International Data Group, BPM, EAI, business process, enterprise application, IT infrastructure, monitor, information technology, tool
White papers
How to Integrate Enterprise Applications Into Your Portal
Enterprise portals are specifically designed to be the single source of interaction with corporate information and the focal point for conducting day-to-day business. Portals are also becoming a key component of any Business Process Management BPM, Enterprise Application Integration EAI, and Business Activity Monitoring BAM initiative, as they represent the...
Tags: Portals, Operational planning, Enterprise software, Application servers, Oracle Application Server Portal, enterprise application, portal, business process, enterprise portal, EAI, BPM, Oracle Corp.
White papers 2004-12-01
Mobilising Your Workforce: A Blueprint For The Utilities Industry
Keeping in touch with their field workforces is a major concern for utility companies and other network businesses. The problem is a cause of low productivity, and the lack of timely and relevant asset data from the field hampers maintenance planning. Mobile Workforce Management MWF offers a solution to these...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise software, IBM Corp., utility company, workforce, EAI, enterprise application, wireless network, asset, network, benefit, mobile, wireless
White papers 2003-06-01
Capgemini Analysis of Overlake Hospital HIPAA Readiness Predicts Microsoft BizTalk Server Can Reduce Compliance Risk
Overlake Hospital Medical Center (with annual revenues of over $200 million) is a highly rated hospital that cares for about 150,000 patients each year. Like all United States healthcare organizations, it must comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 regulations starting in October 2003. This...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Capgemini, Microsoft BizTalk Server, hospital, HIPAA, compliance, HIPAA compliance, EAI, health care, health insurance, patient, analysis, server, Microsoft Corp.
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