Enterprises application integration

Business integration (BI) has become a key issue for many companies to extend business market by integrating and streamlining processes both internally and with partners. To address this issue, whole marketplace has emerged for software solution that can help to achieve improved business integration which is referred as EAI. Originally EAI was only focused around integrating ERP with other applications within enterprise but now it is generally used as a catch-all term to cover ad the other aspects of business integration. Major EAI approaches and evolution of enabling technologies ranging from EDI to Web services and XML based process integration are analyzed to provide flexible, scalable and adaptable EAI framework. Solution comprises the challenge of efficiently integrating diverse business processes and data across the enterprises, allowing the organizations to keep pace with and respond to market changes.