The Utopian “E” Convergence - EAI, EII, ETL, MOM, B2Bi, BPM, B2B Gateway, BPI, IDM, MDM,…
All the Enterprise Information Management and Integration applications and approaches coming under one roof!
EAI, EII, ETL, MOM, B2Bi, BPM, B2B Gateway, BPI, IDM, MDM,… before anyone comes up with another acronym and glorifies how effective and important it is, there is a natural happening - An evolution of all the above into a utopian convergence of all the Enterprise Information Management and Integration applications and approaches.
The evolution is here!
1970’s were about simple, manual integration
1980’s were about distributed computing
1990s and early 21st century were about packaged enterprise applications. We saw new concepts, technologies, internet-based computing and tools that increased automation. We saw all the acronyms specified earlier and more emerging. Some made a mark and some didn’t.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerges with the punch line “Let us unite everything everywhere and orchestrate them as services”. It applies successful concepts from the past like Object Oriented development, Component Based Design and Enterprise Application Integration technology to an architectural approach for IT system integration.