Enterprise Application Integration is needed in many organisations to improve the functionality of their IT systems and offer new business functions to end-users without implementing and deploying new applications. With growing complexity of the IT infrastructure and the pressure to bring new features in ever shorter time, application integration became a challenging task. One approach for inte...

Interdependence between the subsystems of an enterprise is one of the driving reasons for integrating the enterprise. Integration attempts to manage those interdependencies so all subsystems work harmoniously together to achieve the enterprise goals. Prior to embarking on an enterprise integration project the interdependencies need to be analyzed. Unfortunately, interdependence between subsyste...

Organisations use Enterprise Service Busses (ESBs) to support enterprise application integration. For a variety of reasons – mergers and acquisitions, geographically distributed enterprise units, distributed governance, scalability – enterprises sometimes need to acquire multiple, disparate ESBs and enable the applications that each one supports to interoperate. However, currently, no standard ...

Enterprise information integration (EII) requires an accurate, precise and complete understanding of the disparate data sources, the needs of the information consumers, and how these map to the business concepts of the enterprise. In practice, such integration takes place in context of any enterprise information system. In the paper we explain various approaches to EII, its architectures as wel...

This paper investigates the potential of the Semantic Web technologies to support a semantic-based Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) standards architecture. We give detailed information of the support that these technologies and the underlying Description Logics (DL) formalism provide for the integration task. Our main aim is to assess the potential impact of these emerging technologies ...

This paper addresses the integration of agents with external resources and services in enterprise computing environments. We propose an approach for interfacing agents and existing message routing and mediation engines based on the endpoint concept from the enterprise integration patterns of Hohpe and Woolf.

* Enterprise Application Integration † Co-financed by FONACIT through the S1-2001000792 Abstract Software integration has been a solution to the problem of connecting dissimilar systems for many years. This integration is still a challenging issue. EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) is defined as the process of integrating enterprise systems with existing applications. Since software inte...

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies facilitate the sharing of information and business processes of interrelated information systems in order to achieve the target integrated systems. Different EAI solutions and technologies provide various capabilities which lead to the complexity of their evaluation process. To reduce this complexity, appropriate tools for evaluating the fun...

Existing public domain enterprise engineering methodologies provide a backbone of modelling concepts designed to maintain consistency between common engineering concerns during different life phases of enterprise systems. The literature reports industrial examples of the use of such a backbone of modelling concepts to formally structure and support large-scale systems engineering. This has led ...

Due to rapid changing business requirements the complexity in developing enterprise-spanning applications is continually growing. A vital field of delivering technical concepts and technologies for integrating heterogeneous applications and components to support inter-organisational business processes is the area of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). A common characteristic of all EAI ap...