Achieving a competitive advantage through business agility has triggered the increasing demand to integrate and extend business-critical applications, processes and data throughout the enterprise.  Far too often, systems are poorly integrated; thus, the competitive value of information is muted, as data is not accessible or synchronized with other business processes in real time

Enterprise Application Integration continues to be a top strategic priority for CIO’s and CTO’s and an enterprise-wide challenge for organizations simply because:

• Crucial business functionality is spread across a wide range of custom and packaged applications.
• Customers are increasingly demanding a single, customer-centric view into business, regardless of existing stovepipe systems.
• Real-time B2B integration is placing additional demands on the automated execution of business processes across the enterprise

Furthermore, as Web-based service solutions mature, organizations will inevitably turn their attention to ensuring interoperability between emerging Internet service solutions and existing EAI solutions; this is where BEAT comes in

BEAT Enterprise Integration solutions based on Microsoft .NET enable your organization to achieve business agility through the convergence of systems, applications, processes, people and data. This convergence can be done through integrating fragmented business processes and disconnected silos of information.

Properly deployed, EAI can deliver some of the following:

• Lower costs and development time reduced by 30-50% of longer-term systems maintenance
• Lower costs by creating one interface per application
• Lower the cost of upgrades, modifications or additions to applications
  Unite disparate applications
• Enable better decision-making by providing relevant and timely business reporting and analysis
• Merge diverse data sets, and reduce transaction costs
• Increase efficiency by automating business processes across the enterprise and across existing boundaries
• Reduce redundant databases by eliminating duplicate data
• Increase productivity
• Enhance customer interactions and increase satisfaction
• Extend applications to more users by communicating in real-time regardless of geography
• Provide system(s)-to-system(s) links, connecting customers, suppliers, collaborators, and partners of all sorts within your supply chain.

BEAT can assist your organization to formulate an initial EAI strategy, gather requirements, design an EAI architecture blueprint, or mentor your organization through a pilot EAI project.No matter what stage of an EAI deployment lifecycle you are currently in, BEAT can provide EAI best practices and consulting expertise to help ensure your success.

EAI is not just another buzzword; it is a key player that lets e-business work. It is a technology in response to rapidly changing business needs!