Enterprise Application Integration

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• The skills to achieve the greatest ROI on an IT investment
  
• The knowledge necessary to categorize and evaluate a wide variety of integration technologies
  
• Techniques and tools required to EAI-enable your enterprise including state-of-the-art message brokers and application servers
  
• The ability to develop a road map for your next EAI project
  
• The knowledge of key EAI concepts, including the future direction of EAI
  

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in bringing the power of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to their enterprise. As corporate dependence on technology has grown more complex and far-reaching, the great promise of EAI has emerged as an important solution for IT management. EAI meets the new need for a method of integrating disparate applications into a unified set of business processes. Renowned EAI expert David Linthicum demystifies the key concepts, teaches the critical techniques, and outlines relevant enabling technologies, allowing IT professionals to unlock the massive potential of EAI.

With this book as your guide, you will gain:

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• The skills to achieve the greatest ROI on an IT investment
  
• The knowledge necessary to categorize and evaluate a wide variety of integration technologies
  
• Techniques and tools required to EAI-enable your enterprise including state-of-the-art message brokers and application servers
  
• The ability to develop a road map for your next EAI project
  
• The knowledge of key EAI concepts, including the future direction of EAI
  

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Linthicum, Chief Technology Officer for SAGA software corporation, examines enterprise application integration (EAI), a strategy which allows the unrestricted sharing of data and business processes among any connected applications and data sources within an enterprise. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

David S. Linthicum is an internationally known distributed-computing and application integration expert who speaks at popular technical conferences throughout the United States. He has almost twenty years of experience in the integration-technology industry, most recently as CTO of Mercator Software, Inc. Before joining Mercator, David was the CTO of SAGA Software, and also held senior-level management positions at Electronic Data Systems, AT&T Solutions, and Ernst & Young LLP. He has consulted for hundreds of major corporations engaged in systems analysis, design, and development, with a concentration in complex distributed systems. This is David's third book on application integration.