| Description: | The Enterprise Application Integration Briefing is designed to give delegates an appreciation of what EAI is, the driving forces behind the adoption and implementation of EAI techniques, the technical challenges of application integration, as well as standard approaches and the costs of EAI to the business. Delegates will gain insight into many EAI issues, including middleware technologies, back-end integration using JDBC, ODBC and MQSeries and the standard current integration platforms, J2EE and Microsoft .NET.
A practical focus of the presentation is integration of mission-critical enterprise applications to help the organisation to be more productive and dynamic. Businesses have invested heavily in disparate sets of stand-alone COBOL, VB, Delphi, C++ and COM applications. With relatively minor modification, these systems can be isolated, wrapped in MQSeries or SOAP/XML and, using .NET or J2EE, integrated with the rest of the enterprise applications. |
| Audience | This Briefing is suitable for IT Managers and Directors, IT project managers and technical staff who need an insight into the technologies ot EAI and attendant business processes. It is also suitable for business managers who need to be aware of the new application model and to give buy-in and commitment to applications developed within it. |
| Objectives | On completion of this Briefing, delegates will:
- Have a new perspective on EAI, gaining a high-level view of how the various integration architectures, tools and techniques work.
- Be aware of the principal middleware techniques and tools, and of the application types for which they are suitable.
- Be able to compare the Web-service/XML and message-based integration models.
- Understand how end-to-end enterprise applications are built using the various integration tools, and appreciate their organisational impact. |
