Appendix B. Where XML Fits with Application Integration
Fundamentally, application integration is about loosely coupling applications and data stores together to solve intraenterprise business problems. Its strength is facilitating the free flow of information from any system to any other system, one-to-one or many-to-many, with each of those systems gaining access to perfect external information in real time.
Application integration typically integrates ERP packages such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Baan in addition to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) packages, databases, and older mainframe systems. Application integration also allows organizations to externalize existing enterprise application information to interested parties, including ...
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