Enterprise Application Integration in the electronic commerce world
Electronic commerce is radically changing the competitive landscape. Increasingly, firms need to have stronger ties with customers and suppliers. In this business scenario, it is important for firms to have information systems (IS) that encourage the unhindered flow of information. The paradigm that addresses this need of firms is popularly known as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). In this paper, we examine EAI in some detail and develop a case for EAI in today's business environment. We discuss various ways in which EAI can be realized and illustrate how firms can improve gains by implementing the appropriate EAI solution. It concludes with a discussion about the future directions that EAI might take.
electronic commerce enterprise application integration (eai) extensible markup language (xml) legacy systems client/server systems