Enterprise application integration (EAI) is a broad term applied to many different types of integration technologies -- from development environments to messaging tools to the latest crop of tools labeled as enterprise service buses. The focus of an EAI tool is transactional integration or application level integration. Learn why and how organizations employ EAI in this part of the SearchDataManagement.com enterprise data integration podcast series.
This five-minute audio tip is appropriate for those with business or technical backgrounds. Listeners will:
- Hear a short, straightforward explanation about EAI software
- Learn when, where and why organizations choose to use EAI software
- Find out more about the EAI software advantages and disadvantages
This audio download is an excellent way to train and educate people who are new to enterprise application integration (EAI). Check out the complete enterprise data integration podcast series for more information about extract, transform and load (ETL) tools, enterprise information integration (EII) and enterprise data replication (EDR).
About the expert: Mark Madsen is president of Third Nature, a market research and consulting firm focused on business intelligence, data integration and data management. Mark is an award-winning architect and CTO whose work has been featured in numerous industry publications. He is a principal author of Clickstream Data Warehousing and teaches classes on data warehousing and open source for TDWI. For more information or to contact Mark, visit ThirdNature.net.
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