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Benefits of Business Integration

Aside from general computing infrastructure, one of the largest IT investments in nearly every organization is line-of-business (LOB) applications. These applications are at the heart of an organization's operations, embodying their unique way of doing business. They would be expensive and painful to rewrite, and such an endeavor would be disruptive to normal operations. Therefore such systems often outlast their underlying technology. They endure, often long after their authors have departed the company. Indeed, you know when you truly have a legacy system when there is no longer anyone around to support it. The core value of EAI is to add extra life to LOB systems, allowing them to work together more closely ...