Enterprise Application Integration and Complex Adaptive Systems
Communications of the ACM, 45 (10):
59-64 (Oktober 2002)Zusammenfassung
The ubiquity of the Internet enables enterprises to line up into virtual alliances with loosely coupled business processes organized along the axis of the virtual value chain, resulting in competition between tather than within vertical indusuies. This highly challenging process has recently evolved through several levels of integration from isolated legacy silos of enterprise information to agile and
cooperative information systems. Batch data transfers have traditionally been accomplished through nightly magnetic tape inputs in banking systems. These have evolved into real-time point-to-point interfaces extensively used in banking, health care, and manufacturing systems to coordinate data flow between systems. This traditional Enterprise Application integration (EAI) is tedious, expensive, and inflexible.