Enterprise application integration

Question 1

what are the most important tangible benefits of systems integration

Answer 1

1. reduction of costs
2. productivity improvement
3. improved cycle time

Question 2

What are major characteristics of EAI

Answer 2

1. EAI provides infrastructure to re-use, rapidly connect, interface and unify information and business processes
2. EAI represents both the products and the process of integrating new and legacy applications
3. the purpose of EAI is to integrate custom and package applications and map data between applications to drive operational efficiency within the corporation
4. EAI seeks to enable enterprises to react with consistency and speed through acces to business information real-time
5. EAI is non-intrusive: the applications being integrated do not change, or the changes are slight and insignificant

Question 3

what are the different layers of EAI integration

Answer 3

1. transportation layer
2. data integration layer
3. business process integration layer

Question 4

what are the responsibilities of an integration broker infrastructure

Answer 4

1. support for different types of messaging
2. message routing
3. data transformation
4. Meta-data support
5. business rules implementation
6. ability to allow transaction recovery in a consistent format
7. business process support

Question 5

what are the tasks of application servers

Answer 5

1. message routing
2. data transformation
3. meta-data support
4. business process and business rules support
5. transaction support
6. component support