Summary
Businesses need timely dissemination of the right information to the right people to maintain a competitive edge in the global market economy. Efficient dissemination of information, however, requires that it be readily available. This is challenging because most systems within an enterprise are designed to support only individual business units, creating information silos. Integrating such systems to improve information availability gets even more difficult because these systems are inherently heterogeneous. Enterprise integration methods are designed to overcome some of these challenges. Traditionally, integration has been achieved at the data, object and application levels using technologies such as EDI, data warehouses, XML, SOAP, ...
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