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Unit 6: Source Integration

industry regulation & De-regulation notes

Opening up of business processes to share information and allow market access requires
information to flow transparently and seamlessly both externally and internally.
Business process automation

Business Process Automation requires new products and services to be integrated with already
existent applications so as to improve efficiency, operating costs and customer services across an
organization.

growth in implementation of erp packages

ERP vendors are coming up with a product line complete with interfaces/ adapters to assist the
ERP solution to be integrated with other applications as they have realized that ERP solutions to
be effective should be integrated with the back end legacy applications.

supply chain Management & customer relationship Management

There is a movement towards virtual enterprise linking application systems from various
companies in the supply chain. Significant developments in peer-to-peer networking and
distributed processing have made it possible for businesses to integrate better their own
functional departments as well as integrate with their partners and suppliers for better SCM &
CRM. Re-engineering of business processes by organizations for greater customer focus requires
close cooperation between standalone applications.

Zero Latency enterprise

Zero latency enterprise refers to an organization that can change its business rules in real time to
act on new market opportunities and customer demands. An enterprise application integration
solution accelerates responses and facilitates business changes in the zero latency enterprise.
reduction of Business process Life cycle

In the today’s competitive business environment the need to align business systems with business
goals is all the more a reality. Business processes evolve continuously requiring new methods
and data, which in turn require integration with the existing ones. These new applications should
start operations quickly moving IT management to shorter application lifecycles. This is made
possible because of EAI solutions, which help in integrating different applications and also assist
in changing the business rules as required in minimum amount of time.

intranet/internet explosion

The Intranet/Internet explosion is leading to surge in the demand for a new class of human
active applications that require integration with back end legacy applications. This feature again
is enabled by EAI solution which can integrated the front end and back end applications.

6.3 advantages of implementing eai

The advantages of EAI are:
1. Assists in Supply Chain Management and has the ability to adapt to business changes like
Mergers and Acquisitions as it unifies/ integrates applications in no time.
2. Presents user applications with an unified view of information for better decision making
thereby achieving cross system consistency.

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