Enterprise Application Integration, or EAI, includes the following areas:

1. Opening up ways for the information to flow from one application to another (internal or external)
2. Letting applications to reach other sources of data outside themselves
3. Allowing applications to modify information within other applications
4. Sharing data between divisions or even between separate corporations
5. Consolidating data to create executive dashboards in order to improve the decision making process

Examples of Enterprise Applications that can be integrated through EAI components and tools include:

• eCommerce and eBusiness
• Content Management Systems
• Customer Relationship Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Human Resources Management
• Workflow and Collaboration
• Business Intelligence
• Telecommunications
• Advertising Campaigns Management
• Graphic Analysis, Dashboards and Executive Information Management

Simple Solutions EAI solutions can use the following Application Integration concepts:

• Information-Oriented Application (IOA) Integration
• Business Process Integration-Oriented Application (BPOA) Integration
• Service-Oriented Application (SOA) Integration
• Portal-Oriented Application (POA) Integration

Each of the applications, tools and technologies components can be bundled , through standard interfaces, APIs and Web Services, into pipelines (collection of EAI components and tools) that perform some set of tasks. Pipelines are modular constructors that allow the design and implementation of integration projects either through the top-down, bottom-up approach or flat-enterprise approach. The solution enables message exchange among existing and new applications on multiple platforms to provide any-to-any connectivity linking customers, suppliers, employees, business partners and shareholders.

Simple Solutions provides standard connections to the most common applications and data sources, enabling organizations to quickly and easily leverage technologies such as IBM's Websphere™, Microsoft's BizTalk Server™, XML, and Java™.

Simple Solutions implements business integration solutions that simplify business processes, eliminating custom integration code, and replacing it with the straightforward assembly and configuration of off-the-shelf components, providing the required technology components and tools to achieve real-time, near-real-time or batch integration.

As can be seen in the links below, the main components that are involved in the Enterpise Applications Integration solution are as follows:

• Applications

• Databases

• Integration Framework

• Communications and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs using Key Based Access)

• Web interfaces (for users, customers and business partners)