EAI
More than a decade of heavy investment in both package and "homegrown" IT systems has left almost every organization with a wide range of business systems and applications.
Organizations are now looking to smooth the internal flow of information, resolve incompatible IT systems, and streamline cross-business operations. This process, called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), typically involves passing information from one application to another.
MACRO has a unique vantage point in this space primarily due to the 25 plus years of building most every type of system that businesses used and continue to use today. Our insight to the EAI process has resulted in some measurable client advantages like;
- Increase the responsiveness of your technology landscape to changing business needs
- Maximize the ROI of your major application investments – including major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain solutions
- Extend the use of key legacy applications
- Eliminate redundant and non-cost effective solutions
- Increase effective standardization within your application landscape
- Reduce your overall IT costs – releasing an investment in technology that will help generate competitive advantage for your organization
- Better positioned to support mergers, acquisitions and reorganization more effectively
- Realign your systems to meet your short- and long-term business needs
Web Services
Web Services has emerged as the most popular solution to EAI, compared to the traditional, proprietary EAI solutions.
One of the most attractive aspects of Web Services is its much lower integration cost, which offers the possibility of multiple quick, cost-effective integration projects, thanks to open standards, pervasiveness, and ease-of-use.
Web Services are the building blocks for creating distributed applications that can be published and accessed via Internet/Intranet. Based on open standards, Web Services enable you to construct applications using any hardware platform, programming model or language.
Thus, you can build a java-based Web Service on Solaris that is accessible from your Visual Basic program running on Windows. Or you can use C# to build new Web Services on Windows that can be invoked from your JSP-based Web applications running on Linux.
Find out how MACRO can help your organization by sharing the benefits of EAI and Web Services.
