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Data Warehousing and Data Mining

notes the results
Our client’s middleware critically improves the integration of the instrumentation,
the automation system, the lab’s data management component, and the LIS. The data
management system that OSF Global Services contributed to helps streamline laboratory
information processes for maximum efficiency interfacing timely, accurate and reliable
clinical test results, eliminating LIS bottlenecks, and enabling lab operations in a cost-
effective manner.
Questions
1. What are the challenges they face?
2. If you are the manager of this firm what are your suggestion for your client.

Source: http://www.osf-global.com
6.21 summary

l z Enterprise Application Integration is an integration framework composed of a collection of
technologies and services which form a middleware to enable integration of systems and
applications across the enterprise.
l z Enterprise application integration (EAI) is the process of linking such applications within
a single organization together in order to simplify and automate business processes to the
greatest extent possible, while at the same time avoiding having to make sweeping changes
to the existing applications or data structures. In the words of the Gartner Group, EAI is the
“unrestricted sharing of data and business processes among any connected application or
data sources in the enterprise.”

6.22 keywords

CRM: CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is a comprehensive strategy and process of
acquiring, retaining and partnering with selective customers to create superior value for the
company and the customer.

e-business: e-business is the use of the Internet and other networks and information technologies
to support electronic commerce, enterprise communications and collaboration, and web-enabled
business processes both within an internetworked enterprise, and with its customers and business
partners.
e-commerce: It is a general concept covering any form of business transaction or information
exchange executed using information and communication technologies.
Enterprise Application Integration: Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is defined as the
use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise
computer applications.

6.23 self assessment

Choose the appropriate answers:
1. MOM stands for:

(a) Message-oriented Middleware
(b) Management-oriented Middleware
(c) Message-operated Middleware
(d) Message-operational Middleware

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