What is EAI? Why do we need it?

Enterprise Application Integration(EAI):The use of middleware to integrate the application programs, databases, and legacy systems involved in an organization's critical business processes.

Software that mediates between an application program and a network.It manages the interaction between disparate applications across the heterogeneous computing platforms.

The need of EAI:

• Provides a common framework for integrating incompatible and distributed systems.
• Makes it faster and easier to tie together applications and Web Services.
• Can integrate applications into business processes that span the organization.
• EAI reduces the complexity of IT infrastructure and dramatically improves its reliability, flexibility and scalability –