Why integrate systems and applications?
A successfully integrated enterprise can reward your organization with significant cost, resource, and time savings. Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) connects existing and new systems to enable collaborative operation within your entire organization. A successfully integrated system allows information to work harder and smarter, increasing the speed of business reaction time, and facilitating seamless, straight-through transaction processing. Although a number of Integration solutions-Middleware technologies are available in the market. Some of them are briefly discussed here. SAP Process Integration (SAP PI – SAP XI) BizTalk Web methods IBM MQSeries/WebSphere Mercator Oracle fusion Sap PI (XI) PI is well suited for connecting SAP systems with each other and with non-SAP. SAP PI provides an integrated work flow engine that allows defining adapters to non-XML protocols and mappings to convert data content from source to target format. PI is handy for particularly SAP-to-NonSAP
