For every information need a point to point solution was created. Today there are tools that allow an application to publish information to a hub and other applications could subscribe to that portion of the data that they needed. This approach increased the flexibility of the solution and decreased its complexity and cost. Application Integration is a rapidly growing segment of Information Technology activity. This activity is being driven by a number of business activities including mergers and acquisitions, remote usage of company applications, B2B needs, the need for increased speed to market, supply chain management, just in time business processes, and best of class off the shelf application implementation.
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