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Unit 6: Source Integration

largest company of its kind in the world.) and Royal Bank of Canada (Canada’s central bank, notes
established under the Bank of Canada Act (1934). It was founded during the Great Depression to
regulate credit and currency. The Bank acts as the Canadian government’s fiscal agent and has
the sole right to issue paper money.) a transaction in one account triggers an event in another
process for a marketing contact.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing’s key competitive measure is cost reduction through inventory control and just-
in-time processes. Allowing outside suppliers to view inventory data is possible with enterprise
resource (Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of
medium and large businesses.) applications, but EAI provides a way for the manufacturer’s
systems to communicate with external systems to track sales, forecast demand, and maintain a
detailed view of pricing and availability among many suppliers. General Motors’ Covisint is a
custom vehicle order management system that interfaces with inventory, planning, and logistics
applications in the supply chain.

Life science

In the life sciences industries, being first to market is critical since patents on new compounds
expire within 17 years from the time the first documents are submitted to the Food and Drug
Administration. EAI applications in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology companies, and research
institutions integrate data from diverse laboratory systems with clinical data and other core
systems so that it can be available to analytical applications. Several such projects are quietly
underway within U.S. companies working on human and animal genome projects.

6.13 towards systematic Methodologies for source integration

EAI technology based on:
1. EAI technology trends
2. EAI tools/products
3. EAI solution types

4. OSI model and EAI
6.13.1 eai technology trends

The initial focus of EAI was at the data-level i.e., moving or replicating data among databases,
but it is evolving into business process automation. The present EAI technology is different to
the earlier EAI solutions as its focus is on integrating enterprise applications and not data or
assortment of different application types. Also the EAI solution can be reused for many other
needs, not just on the same platform but also across heterogeneous platforms and networks
and between multiple suppliers’ packaged applications. The other differences in the past and
present EAI solutions are that the integration is now at business process and practices level, not
at application level or database level and the middleware is transparent to the user, so specific
expertise in particular application-infrastructure technologies not required.

The Enterprise Application Integration trends are as follows:
1. Point-to-point Interfaces
2. Integration with Packaged integration brokers

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