Enterprise Application Integration

1 ABOUT EAI 3
2 REASONS FOR EMERGENCE OF EAI
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3 ADVANTAGES OF IMPLEMENTING EAI
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4 EAI FUNCTIONING
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5 EAI TECHNOLOGY
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5.1 TRENDS
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5.1.1 POINT-TO-POINT INTERFACES
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5.1.2 INTEGRATION WITH PACKAGED INTEGRATION BROKERS
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5.2 EAI TOOLS/ PRODUCTS 5
5.2.1 DATA LEVEL PRODUCTS
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5.2.1.1 CODE GENERATORS
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5.2.1.2. TRANSFORMATION ENGINES/ HUBS
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5.2.1.3 DATA WAREHOUSE AND DATA MART LOADERS
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5.2.2 BUSINESS MODEL LEVEL PRODUCTS
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5.3 EAI SOLUTION TYPES
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5.4 OSI MODEL FOR EAI
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6 EAI ARCHITECTURE
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6.1 LAYERS OF EAI
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6.1.1 COMMUNICATIONS
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6.1.2 ROUTING AND BROKERING
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6.1.3 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
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6.2 EAI SOFTWARE TOPOLOGY 8
6.2.1 TYPES OF SOFTARE TYPOLOGY
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6.2.1.1 HUB/ STAR TOPOLOGY
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6.2.1.2 BUS TOPOLOGY
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6.2.1.3 POINT-TO-POINT TOPOLOGY
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6.2.1.4 PIPELINE TOPOLOGY
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6.2.1.5 NETWORK TOPOLOGY
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7 EAI SOLUTION
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7.1 REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE EAI SOLUTION
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7.2 EAI SOFTWARE FLEXIBILITY
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7.2.1 BUSINESS PROCESS SUPPORT
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7.2.2 TRANSPORTATION
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7.2.3 SERVICES
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7.2.4 INTERFACES
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7.2.5 TRANSFORMATION
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8 EAI SOLUTION EVALUTION
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8.1 CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
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8.2 EAI SOLUTION EVALUATION METHODOLOGY 10
8.2.1 ADAPTER/ CONNECTOR FIT
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8.2.2 TOOLS PRODUCTIVITY/ QUALITY
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8.2.3 RUNTIME QUALITY/ SCALABILITY
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8.2.4 RUNTIME FIT TO PURPOSE
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8.2.5 BUSINESS PROCESS SUPPORT
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8.2.6 INTEGRATOR RESOURCES
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8.2.7 PURCHASE AND OWNERSHIP COST
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9 EAI SOFTWARE CHECKLIST
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9.1 TOPOLOGY INDEPENDENCE
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9.2 SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS
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9.3 SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE MIDDLEWARE SYSTEMS 12
9.4 CONNECTIVITY TO DATBASES AND FILES 12
9.5 CONTENT- BASED APPLICATION ADAPTERS 12
9.6 PROCESS FLOW CONTROL 12
9.7 EVENT COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT 12
9.8 INTEGRATION WITHOUT PROGRAMMING 12
9.9 HIGH PERFORMANCE 12
9.10 PROVEN IMPLEMENTATION 12
10 EAI MARKET SEGMENTATION 12
10.1 PLATFORM INTEGRATION
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10.2 DATA INTEGRATION
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10.3 COMPONENT INTEGRATION
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10.4 APPLICATION INTEGRATION
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10.5 PROCESS INTEGRATION
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11 EAI IMPLEMENTATION:
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11.1 DATABASE LINKING .
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11.2 APPLICATION LINKING
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11.3 DATA WAREHOUSING
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11.4 COMMON VIRTUAL SYSTSEM
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12 TYPES OF EAI
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12.1 DATA LEVEL
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12.2 BUSINESS MODEL LEVEL
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12.2.1 APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE LEVEL 14
12.2.2 METHOD LEVEL
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12.2.3 USER INTERFACE LEVEL
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13 EAI IMPLENTATION COSTS AND ROI: 14
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