Finally, dedicate staff to your EAI system long-term. It will function as the switch in your application network, handling all your app interactions. If it goes south, your apps will be without connectivity.
Also, have some trained EAI developers at the ready. Upgrades and system replacements will generate plenty of work for them. By using such EAI
professionals, you're in effect not adding staff, but merely shifting responsibilities to ease the project teams' workload.
Don MacVittie is an application engineer at WPS Resources. Write
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EAI Applications
Getting all those finicky applications you bought in the '90s to play nice with your shiny new Web-enabled software is tough enough,
but throw in custom code written by long-
departed COBOL connoisseurs, and the dream
of getting your applications to work as a team in support of business goals can seem hopelessly out of reach.
Enter EAI. Enterprise application integration apps work like a switch to which you hardwire all your disparate systems, thus ensuring that each application can interface with all others. Implementing simple business processes that once took days, even weeks, can be accomplished via a GUI. Magic.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
