3.4. Enterprise Application Integration

The application server is simply one piece of the solution to a much broader problem facing many organizations. In solving their IT problems, many organizations find that now their IT infrastructure consists of a puzzling collection of packaged applications, deployed mainframe systems, plus a variety of homegrown corporate and departmental utilities. Although they've solved many of their near-term IT needs, they are also finding that they face a growing problem with a key corporate IT need: connecting these solutions for a consistent view of their IT assets. One answer is to combine these isolated solutions to provide increased productivity and business intelligence to corporations. The broad term Enterprise ...

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