SERVICES• Workshops • EAI Strategy regarding PLM

Spreading business functions across multiple applications provides the business with the flexibility to select the "best"! Interesting applications rarely live in isolation. Whether your PLM application must interface with your ERP, Legacy or CRM application, any application can be made better by integrating it with other applications. But in order to support common business processes and data sharing across applications, these applications need to be integrated. Application integration needs to provide efficient, reliable and secure data exchange between multiple enterprise applications Enterprise integration is no easy task! It is an important challenge by connecting multiple applications running on multiple platforms in different locations. EAI is the key solution for a fully integrated process across the enterprise.

However, EAI projects encompass a wide solution scope on different complex aspects:

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EAI defines the high-level roles of the different integrated systems in the enterprise and can become as complex as PLM or ERP integration.

- By creating a new system dependency, the integration solution affects the application flexibility.
- By interfacing all proprietary system code and using latest e-business technology, EAI project requires important technical comprehension.
- There are multiples integration topics to be defined (Business Process, Connector, Mapping, Data transfer .).
- Many EAI solutions are not able to meet the production scalabilty requirements (performance, human manipulations, exception handling, solution failure.