Enterprise Application Integration
Description:
Integration means more today to a business than just linking applications together. Data integration, systems integration, content and knowledge integration are all terms we hear today when talking about integration. Equally significant today is the newer issue of application segregation, separating the data and code from existing systems. What is needed is a key set of integration strategies, approaches and concepts that form the foundation of new technology driven business opportunity such as e-commerce, grid computing and business intelligence. A key result of integrating mission critical applications is achieving a simpler, flexible, efficient and effective enterprise, one that is less expensive and easier to restructure than the existing enterprise.
This course presents the different integration approaches, architectures, methods and tools for achieving the degree of business and application integration for competitive business execution. Integration approaches that depend on web services, portals, leveraging legacy systems and data are emerging that expose the enterprise to new opportunities not available before.
During this course, the relationship of various integration strategies is presented and an Enterprise Application Integration methodology is defined with supporting methods for EAI major steps. Exercises performed at the end of key sections plus product demonstrations provide a head start in framing an effective EAI solution or evaluating your current efforts.