Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services
Gunjan Samtani, Dimple Sadhwani · Apress eBooks · 2002
An average Fortune 500 company may have 50 or more internal business applications deployed on different platforms, and sometimes even on different versions of the same technology. Not all large enterprises exist as one autonomous whole, often they have evolved from merger and acquisition, and house a diverse range of smaller enterprises with varying dynamics and technology infrastructures that need to be managed in concert with business priorities orchestrated by a head office. The information technology environment in such companies is extremely dynamic as they adopt, at different rates, the latest and the best-of-breed solutions provided by different vendors. The solution from each vendor may have different hardware, platform, and database requirements, which results in the implementation of multiple physically separate systems. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.