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Force Fit: Page 4 of 10

The Business

If your organization is like most, each project team independently creates the systems needed for integration. Every team must spend time addressing integration management issues--time that could be better spent maintaining and enhancing the systems that keep your business running.

The EAI business case follows three basic lines:

1. Centralized management with automated error reporting provides a single place to discover all the system interactions in the organization and a way to help eliminate redundancy.

2. EAI technology allows you to change from interactions between multiple systems to interactions with the EAI server--when a system performs an update, it reports that update to the EAI server, which then propagates changes out to all the systems dependent on this transaction.