Preface
Enterprise Application Integration, or EAI, is a buzzword that gives a name to the informal process that's been going on for years—the integration of various applications so that they may share information and processes freely. However, with a new, intense focus on EAI from both the vendor and analyst community, the opportunity finally exists to get ahead of the curve on a problem—the integration of applications—that costs the Fortune 1000 over $100 billion per year.
Forester Research estimates that more than 30 percent of IT dollars are currently being spent linking systems together for the common good. Perhaps it's time to consider whether that is too great a cost.
The EAI twist to this old story is not so much about system integration ...
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