Enterprise Application Integration Services
Enterprise application integration establishes a middleware framework that helps data flow freely between applications without significant changes to database configurations or the applications themselves, leading to a streamlined process and increased data availability.
Importance of Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise application integration initiatives can either be driven by or drive changes in both these areas. New applications may require new database and workflow connections, and a general business decision to adopt application modernization, cloud computing, or business process modernization will typically involve Enterprise application integration changes to both areas. The most common drivers of Enterprise application integration are a desire to support mobile workers, organizational goals to optimize internet and e-commerce use, and efforts to fully exploit cloud computing.
Workflow integration in Enterprise application integration has traditionally been based on application program interface (API) catalogs and directories, message queues, or service buses. Because different software utilizes different APIs and data formats, organizations may require tools to harmonize the data structures of these interfaces if there are no such facilities in the API brokers or buses themselves.
EAI and serverless
Serverless computing, the third emerging development, has actually complicated Enterprise application integration. Serverless applications and components are event-driven and don’t even have the same kinds of traditional interfaces or database relationships as traditional applications.
EAI and EA modeling
When Enterprise application integration is driven by broad initiatives, like application modernization or business process reengineering, there are compelling benefits associated with using enterprise architecture modeling techniques. That modeling can be used to identify common business processes, data dependencies and workflow requirements.
Database and workflow integration
Two new developments have affected Enterprise application integration workflow. First, componentization and shared component technologies, including microservices, offer an opportunity to compose applications from standard components. This reduces the burden of workflow integration because common applications use the same interfaces.
Second, many enterprises use a platform as a service (PaaS) for workflow integration. That means enterprises establish a standard set of APIs for application and component connection and use them for current and new applications. In the short term, PaaS-modeled Enterprise application integration is more work because it covers the entire enterprise application spectrum. However, in the long term, it can reduce integration efforts during application additions, deletions, and changes.
An internet of things (IoT) application is an example of an event-driven use case that is a candidate for serverless computing. Widespread IoT adoption could force more enterprises to formalize companywide Enterprise application integration frameworks to avoid an avalanche of new integration problems. Fortunately, the componentization and PaaS models of workflow integration are adaptable to serverless and event-driven applications.
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