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Business Integration: Bridge the Gaps between People, Processes, Applications and Data
Overview
Business Integration - A Service-Oriented approach to integration for business and IT
Today organizations are universally faced with the problem of silo'd data and information as a result of what some have called the "accidental architecture approach" of the past decade. Increasingly it is becoming more difficult to deliver applications that can easily tap the organizational information assets that companies have spent millions to develop. In general attempts to integrate these frozen assets have been expensive, inflexible and have delivered limited results.
Business operations are composed of a collection of business processes. These processes don't start or stop with any particular organizational boundary or with any particular application boundary. For example, order management spans sales, order entry, production, delivery, collections, and customer support. Increasingly, as companies strive to improve overall efficiency and responsiveness within their business, they are reviewing and analyzing full life-cycle processes, or end-to-end business processes.
Unfortunately, many of the issues that surface in looking at these end-to-end processes are caused by the inherent gaps and boundaries that exist between disparate applications. These gaps represent artificial boundaries or silos that have been unknowingly put in place through the gradual implementation of multiple applications. These silos result in data, information and services that are essentially frozen within a department or organization. With enough time and money these silos can be connected together. However the resultant integrations typically become rigid, or tightly coupled with a low level of flexibility and adaptability to increasing changing business conditions and needs.
Resources
Products
Learn how BEA's Business Integration Product Portfolio provides a comprehensive set of SOA solutions to enable Line of Business and IT to bridge the gaps between people, process, applications and systems; in essence integrating the business, for business transformation and optimization
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Customers
Read how BEA's customers are leveraging business integration to achieve their SOA and business transformation goals
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Businesses need to consolidate their approaches to INTEGRATION. Today there are three entry points to Business Integration in the enterprise — business process management (BPM), enterprise integration for SOA and application integration. BPM automates, manages and optimizes dynamic business processes spanning organizations, systems and applications to create real business value. Enterprise Integration for SOA exists as part of a greater strategic SOA initiative to foster reusability and flexibility within an enterprise. Application Integration provides high performance and fine-grained control of process services that span applications. All three are needed to deliver a business environment that performs as required and is flexible and responsive to changing needs.
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Studies have proven that Integration is a key reason for the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). They have also proven that integration, across the business, is a core enabler of successful SOA. BEA is committed to helping its customers achieve business integration incrementally, flexibly, and reliably.
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