enterprise application
integration
- What?
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a unification process for business
processes and functionality to present an uniform front to target audience.
Effective and successful EAI requires a judiciously balanced combination of
business and technical expertise - uniting the assets of legacy systems with
the emerging standards of the Internet.
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- The infrastructure nature of EAI technology presents enterprises with a
classical technology transfer challenge. The goal is to integrate legacy systems
without altering the legacy applications, while minimizing the impact on your
business operations. Network topology and architecture can play yet another
role in the challenge of implementing a complete end-to-end solution as scalability,
flexibility, and overall performance may be impacted. Security is crucial
as well - both authentication and authorization. Thus, the underlying challenges
in effective EAI include reconciliation of varied data formats, implementation
of different data access methods, connection of multiple platforms and vendors,
and transformation of diverse business processes into a series of cohesive
transactions.
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- How?
- NTEC has developed complete end-to-end
e-solutions specific to Enterprise Application Integration. NTEC's
nFrame has core components for EAI architecture, called nConnector. Based
on J2EE Connector technology, the nConnector facilitates communications and
data exchanges between native legacy application and new e-business applications.
This is accomplished harnessing the great data portability power of XML. nConnector
applies predefined business logic to XML documents to transform and translate
data into the format required by the recipient applications.
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- Additionally, NTEC consultants have
proven industry and applications knowledge to transform business processes
into technical solutions. They understand design considerations for building
a flexible, robust architectural foundation and are experienced with integration
strategies and maximize value in implementation. NTEC
consultants focus on:
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Speed of application integration,-
minimization of custom development,
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significant reduction of IT development and maintenance costs, and
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Reduction of the learning curve for new technology deployment.
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