Enterprise Application Integration and Complex Adaptive Systems

摘要

The ubiquity of the Internet enables enterprises to line up into virtual alliances with loosely coupled business processes organized along the axis of the virtual value chain, resulting in competition between rather than within vertical industries. This highly challenging process has recently evolved through several levels of integration from isolated legacy silos of enterprise information to agile and cooperative information systems. Batch data transfers have traditionally been accomplished through nightly magnetic tape inputs in banking systems. These have evolved into real-time point-to-point interfaces extensively used in banking, health care, and manufacturing systems to coordinate data flow between systems. This traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is tedious, expensive, and inflexible.