Transcript Enterprise Application Integration

Enterprise Application
Integration
Raul Lopez
James Stump
Adam Mohammed
Summary
What is EAI?
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How does EAI work?
What are it’s pros/cons?
How Costly is EAI?
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What are the startup costs, training, etc…?
How is it funded?
Summary cont…
What are some uses?
What are some companies using it?
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What caused their decision to switch to EAI?
Why are more companies using it now than
before?
Is it proving to be successful?
Case Study Question Overview
Why has EAI recently “become a critical part of the
IT strategy at many organizations,” and a high
ranking project of top IT executives?
What is the major difference in business value of the
EAI projects at Baxter International, GE power, and
Corporate Express?
What are some of the challenges in developing and
implementing EAI systems? How can companies
meet these challenges?
Case Study Question 1
Why is EAI a critical part of the IT Strategy
of many organizations?
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More efficient
Reduces costs
Increases sales
Baxter International
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Customers can now place orders, check order
status, etc electronically instead of over the
phone
Plan to integrate ordering systems to
streamline inventory.
Case Study Question 2
Baxter International launched the first phase of
its EAI projects in 2003, using an integration
platform based webMethods Inc. to link a Webbased customer service application to its ERP.
The projects allows their customers to place
orders, check order status and deliver
schedules, and conduct other transactions
electronically.
GE Power use the webMethods platform to
share data among the ERP systems. The
benefits are the ability to send data in real time
from one system to another, and the quality of
the and accuracy of the data.
Case Study Question 2 cont…
In addition, GE Power set up a project
management office to implement EAI and track
its benefits to the company.
Corporate Express also used an EAI project to
dramatically improve customer service by
almost doubling the number of its Web-based
interfaces to the systems of its business
partners, from 120 to more than 200.
Corporate Express also integrated business-tobusiness systems, which include EDI and XML,
achieved more than $2 million.
Case Study Question 3
What are some of the challenges in developing
and implementing EAI systems?
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specific skills and extensive coordination
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proprietary architectures
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costly
Case Study Question 3 cont…
How can companies meet these
challenges?
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Outside EAI consultants
No immediate solution to the cost of an EAI
system…but…
Real World Activities
Examples of other companies that
successfully integrate their applications on an
enterprise level.
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IBM Delivers Enterprise-Level Applications To
Mobile Devices PDA’s, laptops and smart phones.
IBM’s Workplace Client Technology, Micro
Editions is the platform used to applications to
clients.
AT&T
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
Real World Activities cont…
How should an organization approach an
integration project?
What Criteria should be used in determining a
candidate application for enterprise
application.
Questions???
Secondary Sources:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-eai.htm
http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/j2ee/connectorch01.pdf