Business Integration

The upper echelons of the enterprise world are talking serious service orientated architecture and BUSINESS INTEGRATION. BI is the tectonic plate shift that’s been slowly on the up for some time now and it shows that sanity is returning to Enterprise Computing. They said mainframes would die, they said COBOL would die but they were wrong.There are many core legacy applications, developed over many years in large businesses and most of the established big players around the world could not begin to consider re-engineering these core applications. It is widely accepted now that it would not provide a cost benefit. The philosophy behind Business Integration accepts this and instead focuses on flexible, scaleable and secure access to this base functionality, within an overall framework that integrates systems, data, applications, processes and people inside and outside the organisation. Much more on this ...

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