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To: Emec who wrote (6598)	12/7/1998 12:01:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Respond to of 15094

Found this on the web: Enterprise Application Integration How long can your business survive without it? By Les Yeamans, President of NASG Inc. This year the market for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is experiencing unprecedented growth. This is no fluke. Look at the major trends that are driving the business environment today: e-business - connecting customers, suppliers and partners across the internet, forming integrated value and supply chains. Mergers and acquisitions - integrating dissimilar business processes from two or more companies so they can work as a single corporation. Industry regulation and deregulation - opening up business processes to share information or allow market access. Business process automation - implementing new business systems to improve efficiency, operating costs and customer service across an organization. These pressures also coincide with several key trends in information technology that also demand better integration of applications and processes: Significant developments in peer-to-peer networking and distributed processing have made it possible for businesses to better integrate their own functional departments as well as integrate with their partners and suppliers; The intranet/internet explosion is fuelling the demand for a new class of "human active" applications that require integration with back-end legacy applications; The tremendous growth in adoption of Enterprise Application Software packages, such as SAP R/3, also requires integration with back-end legacy applications. And perhaps most significantly of all, there is now a range of technologies that make the challenge of EAI easier, most notably Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), such as IBM's MQSeries message queuing product, are becoming increasingly popular. Once customers realize the benefits of simple one-to-one application connectivity, their interest in many-to-many application integration increases significantly. There are several ways to achieve enterprise-wide integration - buying enterprise business management software, such as ERP, is one popular option. But almost every business executive I talk to recognizes that packaged solutions never bring all the required functionality to drive the business. After all, the custom applications and legacy data provide the competitive differentiation. Therefore, the question today is not which new systems should be introduced but how are they integrated with existing ones. Enter The Message Broker ... That's just the start. LOTS more at messagequeue.com Click around, you'll even find HDIE. I'll be gone all day tomorrow. You kids play nice!