As your company outgrows itself every few years, newer applications are developed that sometimes don’t integrate well with other applications. Business growth also results in mergers and acquisitions which also result in disparate systems, applications and databases that are critical to business, yet incompatible with one another. Enterprise Application Integration, or EAI, describes the use of technology to connect or integrate existing applications to create a composite application.

Integrating applications in an enterprise helps align the data processing more closely to the business processes, reducing costs and improving performance at the same time.