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Enterprise Application Intergration (EAI):

 

Active Software
Active Software™ is a leading provider of eBusiness integration software products and solutions, enabling customers to become an eBusiness with faster and more efficient operations, real-time information flow, and greater responsiveness to customers within and across the extended enterprise. A pioneer in the new category of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Active Software provides the ActiveWorks™ Integration System, a comprehensive suite of products that rapidly deliver comprehensive eBusiness solutions

BEA Systems, Inc.
BEA Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of mission-critical middleware and Internet solutions for the world's largest enterprises. BEA's product line enables end-to-end, integrated solutions for electronic commerce and business-critical systems. BEA products include BEA TUXEDO, the industry's market share leader for distributed transaction management software, BEA WebLogic, a leading Web application server providing Java and EJB solutions, and BEA eLink, a solution for integrating enterprise applications.

Bluestone Software, Inc.

Bluestone Software, Inc. is the leader in enterprise interaction management - a term coined by the company to define the controlled exchange of web-enabled enterprise information. Bluestone develops and markets Sapphire/Web, a framework of award-winning enterprise Web application server products, and Bluestone XML-Server, the first generally available dynamic XML server

Candle

Candle is committed to providing the products and services needed for successful application connectivity and integration and for managing message-based middleware. Their distributed systems business focuses on applications management and other distributed application needs, particularly monitoring and managing Business Application Response Time to help users meet their service-level agreements. They also continue to develop our systems availability and performance management solutions, both mainframe management and distributed solutions such as the Candle Command Center.

CrossWorlds Software

CrossWorlds Software, Inc. has pioneered the industry’s first Processware software products (patent pending), cross-application business process functionality that let disparate enterprise applications from multiple vendors work together. CrossWorlds’ first product, CrossWorlds Customer Interaction, provides a complete solution for integrating front-office applications such as Aurum, Clarify, Scopus, Trilogy and Vantive with back-office applications such as Baan, PeopleSoft and SAP. The company’s investors include Compaq Computer Corporation, Ernst & Young LLP, Intel Corporation, J.D. Edwards, Kanematsu, Manugistics, OMRON Corporation and SAP AG.

IBM
IBM is about two things: (1) Creating the industry's most advanced information technologies and (2) Helping customers apply those technologies to improve what they do - and how they do it. The MQSeries Family is a complete portfolio of open, scalable, industrial-strength messaging software that enables companies to embrace and extend existing IT investments to integrate complex business processes across different hardware and software. The members of the family are MQSeries messaging products, MQSeries Integrator and MQSeries Workflow. The family addresses the critical areas of IT management; messaging, application and information integration; and business process automation, support and service.

InConcert

InConcert, Inc. develops, markets, and supports integration solutions for Operational Support Systems (OSS). These solutions enable the world's top telecommunications service providers to gain a significant competitive edge in today’s dynamic business climate. The company was recently acquired by TIBCO

Level 8 Systems, Inc.

Level 8 Systems is a premier provider of business integration solutions through a combination of technologies and services that enable organizations to meet their information systems integration, E-commerce enablement, and application development needs. Level 8's software product set includes enterprise application integration (EAI) and E-Commerce enablement products, message-oriented middleware (MOM), and enterprise application development tools

New Era Of Networks (NEON)
New Era of Networks, Inc. (NEON) is the industry leader in providing Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions to financial services, banking, brokerage, telecommunications, utilities, manufacturing, healthcare and other industries. NEON is the first company to provide packaged solutions that successfully integrate legacy applications, client/server and web-based applications, as well as popular Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. With more than 140 implemented customers worldwide, NEON has demonstrated that its applications shorten implementation cycles, easily integrate disparate platforms, and allow information to be shared and managed across the enterprise. The NEON product suite supports Enterprise Application Integration across the leading databases, including DB2, Informix, NT SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase; and provides libraries for SAP and PeopleSoft ERP applications.

Oberon Software
Oberon Software, Inc. is a premier provider of software integration products designed to enable e-business. Through Oberon’s e-Enterprise integration platform, companies can best prepare for and enable e-business by leveraging the capabilities of traditional enterprise applications and leveraging new e-business applications and architectures. Oberon differentiates its market offerings with a total solution that encompasses products, partners and services to support and enable each segment of e-business including integration within the enterprise, business-to-business, customer facing and e-marketplaces/exchanges. Oberon strives to help customers optimize value with effective business process level integration that leverages existing technology investments.

Oracle

Oracle Corp. is the leading supplier of software for enterprise information management. The company has two major businesses: one aimed at providing the lowest cost information technology infrastructure, and the other to provide business and competitive advantage through high value applications. The company offers its database, tools and applications products, along with related consulting, education, and support services. Oracle is one of the first software companies to implement its model of enterprise software management through network computing - capable databases and products, and the first major software company to make full-featured products available electronically on the Internet. It is the only company capable of implementing end-to-end enterprise IT infrastructure and applications solutions on a global scale. From EAI point of view the most relevant products are AQ, MQ gateway and XML

Saga Software

Sagavista is a new, business-centric middleware solution from SAGA that intelligently links various systems in order to access desired enterprise information, integrating disparate operating environments within the enterprise. Through Intelligent Agent Adapters, Integration Server and Integration Workbench, an enterprise can now integrate leading ERP, packaged, custom and legacy applications with minimal costly custom programming.
Sagavista's pre-built application adapters and message brokering technology provide today's global and rapidly changing businesses with significantly increased sharing of data among previously incompatible connected applications or data sources in the enterprise. Sagavista enables businesses to share more information with more people more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Sterling Commerce, Inc.

Sterling Commerce, Inc. is the world's leading provider of end-to-end E-commerce solutions based on Internet technology. Their mission is to help companies capitalize on the extraordinary opportunities for growth and profitability brought about by the Internet and supporting technologies. Sterling Commerce E-commerce solutions squarely address the most important issues companies face as they make the transition to an Internet-driven economy: how to build and manage global commerce communities, how to better integrate their business processes, and how to achieve greater competitiveness through new sales channels, improved productivity and enhanced responsiveness to customers.

SuperNova, Inc.

SuperNova provides reliable and adaptable software solutions for Enterprise Application Development and Integration. SuperNova helps its customers shorten development and integration project cycles and drastically reduce software related expenses. SuperNova believes that enterprise application integration (EAI) without any development is a contradiction. For SuperNova development is a key ingredient of any flexible integration solution. The company?s solutions are based on 11 years of proven technology and experience with hundreds of enterprise customers in industries ranging from banking, manufacturing and telecommunications, to energy, services and retail. In most cases, SuperNova’s integration tools are complementary to other EAI vendors? enterprise application integration platforms.

TIBCO

Founded in 1985 as Teknekron Software Systems, Inc., TIBCO Inc. is a recognized leader in information systems integration and a pioneer in advanced middleware development for the global enterprise. Our unmatched expertise in distributed computing, networking, database systems and information workflow has made TIBCO integral to the IT strategy of the world's most progressive international companies. With offices worldwide to serve a rapidly-expanding client base of major financial services institutions, consumer and high tech manufacturing giants and software developers, TIBCO, an independent division of Reuters Group PLC, is committed to bringing a world of information to you, wherever you are, and wherever you want to be.

TSI Software Inc

TSI Software is a leading provider of solutions for integrating business applications within and between enterprises. TSI's customers include leaders in every industry including American Express, Citibank, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, Hoechst, IBM, Lucent Technologies, NationsBank, and Texas Instruments. TSI's flagship product, Mercator, is in use in over 1,400 sites worldwide and has been adopted by major partners such as IBM, CrossWorlds, Netscape and Price Waterhouse for delivering integration solutions.

Vitria Technology

Vitria Technology Inc. provides the first business-level, model-driven software solution for enterprise application integration (EAI). Vitria BusinessWare helps companies gain end-to-end visibility and control of business processes that span multiple information systems. BusinessWare solutions are driven by graphical business process models that allow business analysts to control and coordinate cross-application information flows without programming. This unique approach reduces the time and cost of integrating applications, and provides the flexibility companies need to continuously adapt processes and supporting systems to changing business conditions. Leading companies including Deutsche Bank, Federal Express, Hewitt Associates, KPMG, Qwest Communications, SBC Communications, and Vanstar Corporation have already chosen BusinessWare to integrate their business-critical information systems. Vitria also works closely with leading product and service partners including Andersen Consulting, Clarify, HP, KPMG, Netscape, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.

WebMethods

WebMethods is a leading provider of open solutions for business-to-business (B2B) integration. The webMethods B2B™ solution provides companies with integrated, direct links to buyers and suppliers, connecting them to major B2B marketplaces and enabling real-time, interactive communication through the Internet, regardless of existing technology infrastructure. Powered by XML, webMethods B2B can automate critical business processes such as customer relations, procurement and financial services, supply chain management, logistics and sell-side/buy-side e-commerce.

EAIQuadrant.com

EAIQuadrant is the best source of up to the minute news and publications about EAI

EAI Journal

EAI Journal - The Resource for e-Business and Application Integration - is sharply focused on this key aspect of enterprise computing. Each month it looks at the technical issues surrounding strategic e-business deployment, including the integration of applications and middleware, and also consider the business implications. In addition, our Website features all the latest breaking news in the market and arranges content intuitively by topic.


What is EAI? 

EAI: What is all excitement about?
Business Drives for EAI
A Brief History of Integration
Defining EAI
EAI Market Segmentation
Enabling EAI integration solutions
The Application Archipelago

When message brokers don’t work

EAI Tools are not complete solution

 

EAI Technologies

Data Level Integration (1)
Data Level Integration (2)
Application Interface Integration (1)
Application Interface Integration (2)
Application Interface Integration (3)
EAI and distributed objects
Selecting a message broker (1)
Selecting a message broker (2)