Purposes
EAI can be used for different purposes:
- Data integration: Ensures that information in multiple systems is kept consistent. This is also known as enterprise information integration (EII).
- Vendor independence: Extracts business policies or rules from applications and implements them in the EAI system, so that even if one of the business applications is replaced with a different vendor's application, the business rules do not have to be re-implemented.
- Common facade: An EAI system can front-end a cluster of applications, providing a single consistent access interface to these applications and shielding users from having to learn to use different software packages.
Read more about this topic: Enterprise Application Integration
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