In today's business environment, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence and Collaborative applications have become requirements for organizations wanting to maintain their competitive advantage. Enterprise application integration is the process of linking these applications and others in order to realize financial and operational competitive advantages.
When your business's various systems are unable to share their data effectively, they create bottlenecks that can eventually strangle business processes and efficiency. With properly integrated applications, organizations are able to focus more of their efforts on value-creating core competencies instead of mundane, wasteful, workflow management.
Application integration can help your business or organization in a variety of ways: