Today I thought of sharing some simple concepts of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). What is this all about? Types of EAI, and its methodologies. From my personal experience at times we forget about the most basic things in our life. Some definition are too tough to explain or if someone is gathering some information or basic knowledge; such handy tips always help us.

So I am sharing a vast topic but with a simple and basic definition –

What is EAI?

EAI (i.e. enterprise application integration) is a business computing term used for the methods, plans, and tools that are aimed at revolutionizing, consolidating, and handling all the computer applications in an enterprise.

Fundamentally, it is all about sharing and distributing data and processes amongst different applications and data sources of that enterprise.

We all know, an enterprise platform has an existing legacy applications and its databases that need to be continued as per the requirements and need however, in addition to that we put a new set of applications that are used in the Internet, e-commerce, extranet, and other new technologies within the enterprise.