Professional Services - Enterprise Application Integration

Today many companies have an assortment of systems and applications that have evolved over time through the normal course of doing business. It is also likely that these applications coexist on different hardware configurations, run under different operating systems, use different database technologies, and are built using different development languages. The Internet is now the standard platform for e-Business. This requires many of these applications to support real-time, fully collaborative, and customer-centric interfaces.

Competitive forces are driving technology efforts toward collaboration and cooperative exchanges of data and applications across corporate boundaries. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Collaborative Commerce (c-Commerce) are the integration areas that make this possible.

Xtech provides an array of services to effectively design and develop integration and collaborative solutions that connect to and use real-time data contained in mainframe computers, legacy databases, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), or other internal systems, as well as connectivity with partners, vendors, and other service providers. 

Our EAI Offering

Component and Technology Integration - The leveraging of reusable components within an application or across applications.

Solution Integration - Making sure that a new solution can share data and workflow with existing systems.

EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) - The automated process of sharing information and business processes from multiple and diverse applications seamlessly throughout your enterprise.

B2B Data Exchange - The sharing of data between your enterprise and other enterprises with which you conduct business -- often using EDI, and more recently, XML.

B2B Portal - The process of exposing your information and workflow to other enterprises with whom you conduct business.

Collaborative Commerce - Interactively sharing information and workflow between your enterprise and other enterprises with which you conduct business.

Our approach is to make architectural choices that support flexibility, extensibility, and market acceptance. Flexibility supports the notion that the backend systems with which you need to integrate evolve over time - technology changes, partner changes, and target system changes. Extensibility means that we can make it do what you need it to do. Market Acceptance leads to a larger menu of third-party products and vendors to help us save our customers time and money in finding a solution.

Technologies

• (extensions of) XML, middleware standards (COM+, CORBA,...)
• workflow products
• business object technology
• reference-models and blueprinting
• tools for enterprise modeling (DEM, Workflow, ARIS,..)
• wrapper technologies and tools
• interface standards (IDL, CDL, EPR BAPI's, Microsoft BizTalk, OFX....)
• standard modeling languages (UML) and model interchange formats (XMI)
• programming languages for distributed systems (Java)

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