Enterprise Application Integration
Have you made significant investments in ERP, CRM, and other technologies with the goal of reducing overall costs, improving efficiency, and thus ultimately raising your bottom-line?
Are you now facing the bitter reality of making these complex systems communicate with one another?
Do you feel like you've made some progress but unfortunately even in those cases where these disparate systems do communicate with one another, it's not always in the most efficient or effective manner.

Don't worry as you are not alone. Sadly, the very prevalence of technologies such as Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) and Integration Brokers that is supposed to solve our integration woes also contributes to the false sense of security that implementing a coherent EAI infrastructure is a simple proposition. This is unfortunate because nothing could be further from the truth.

Creating an effective, enterprise-driven EAI program is much
more about process than it is about technology.

Here are some of the issues that I have helped address in the past:
Are point-to-point integrations always bad, or do they make sense in some cases?
How do I know if I need a high-end integration broker or whether I can get by with a lower cost solution?
What exactly is an EAI Framework anyway? Why do I need one?
What will the impact of Enterprise Modernization, Web 2.0, SOA and Web Services be on my existing EAI investment?
How do I create scalable and well-defined processes for managing integrations at the enterprise level?
How do I integrate my existing "islands of automation" and prevent new islands from being formed?

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