Since computers and applications exist, enterprises generate huge amount of data which is locked away in databases and applications, whether they are internally developed, purchased, created from (or with) third parties or a combination of the realities of business demands and requirements.

Typically, an enterprise has existing legacy applications and databases and wants to continue to use them while adding or migrating to a new set of applications that exploit the Internet, e-commerce, extranet and other new technologies. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions involve developing a new total view of an enterprise's business and its applications, allowing existing applications to fit into the new model and then devising ways to efficiently reuse what already exists while adding new applications, functionality and data.

Enterprise Application Integration, or EAI, encompases 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 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.