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Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI)
FOX Systems, Inc. (FOX)
is aware that most businesses, over time, have
progressively invested in a variety of technologies
aimed at improving their own internal processes as well
as interacting more effectively with their customers and
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Day-to-day operations are
managed using a combination of functionally based legacy
applications, and web-based e-Commerce, Customer
Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) systems. Each system has created
segregated pockets of information and processes that are
difficult to access and share across the organization
and its customers.
This has spawned new efforts to integrate the enterprise
by creating new Intranet applications to support its
employees’ back end processes, extranet applications to
support its customers’ front-end processes, and data
warehousing applications to attempt to create business
intelligence and share common information among them.
However, customers and employees still cannot access all
of the information they need to do their work
efficiently using one, convenient interface. These
solutions have not succeeded in integrating the
organization’s enterprise applications.
Sound familiar?
The typical questions that organizations have when
considering strategies on integrating their information
systems are:
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What is so complex
about achieving Enterprise Applications Integration
(EAI)?
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Isn’t there a single
middleware product that can be purchased that will
do it?
Won’t an ERP do it?
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How about aggregating
disparate information for query and analysis using
an Enterprise Information Portal to achieve EAI?
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What about an
off-the-shelf e-Commerce CRM or Supply Chain
Management (SCM) software purchase?
EAI is not only a product
that can be purchased. EAI is a business-driven approach
that an organization takes to increase the value of its
Information Technology (IT) environment to the business.
Such an approach leads to the development of a flexible
IT architecture that integrates business processes,
hardware, software and standards, and is highly
adaptable to rapid and unpredictable business change.
What approach will you
take to achieve EAI for your business?
FOX is prepared to help you define and implement the
right EAI approach and architecture to effectively
integrate your current technology investments and remove
the processing barriers faced by your associates and
customers. FOX consultants will add value to your
organization by providing broad-based business and
technical expertise, a strategic viewpoint that will
focus your team on the future, a disciplined approach to
assessment and design, experience in business process
improvement and communications, and the facilitation
skills necessary to get the job done quickly and
effectively.
Contact FOX today to discuss your interest in achieving
true EAI. FOX will explain how it can partner with your
team to develop a flexible approach and architecture
solution that will keep pace with rapid change and
provide a competitive advantage.
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