Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) enables new strategic initiatives such as e-business by improving and standardizing the integration between an enterprise's applications and also with applications external to the enterprise.
Enterprise Application Integration Solutions provides Valuable information, once locked up in corporate information systems, is being liberated and distributed to all new groups of information consumers: remote employees, business partners and customers across disparate systems.
A typical EAI system is shown in following diagram.
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