Necessity is sparking a resurgence of corporate interest in back-end systems integration. As the market continues to evolve, and bricks-and-mortar enterprises have begun to refocus on technology improvements that directly impact their profitability. Thus, the streamlining of back-end systems has taken on a new importance.

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is the integration of multiple, diverse processes, applications and systems to create a continuous flow of information within an organization and beyond.

For years, many IT organizations have built point-to-point integration solutions between applications, often "hard wiring" the pieces together and writing code from scratch. But this approach is too complex and unnecessarily expensive to maintain. Such approaches also do not allow for the rapid introduction of robust components to respond to an ever-changing business environment.

EAI tools and system integration best practices and techniques such as data transformation and routing, application adapters, XML mapping, and systems to manage and monitor business activity simplify the integration of diverse systems. Real-time information sharing between web portals, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, operational support systems, legacy systems, and business partners' information systems is now a reality.

Traditionally back-end systems work has been performed by large consulting companies who provided armies of consultants for months, if not years, at a high cost to their clients. Projects were lengthy, complex, and more often than not, antiquated by the time the project was complete.

Today, EAI has evolved into smaller chunks of technology project work. Akri Consulting is able to provide rapid, scalable, and secure implementations that streamline and cost-cut systems elements such as supply chain management, eProcurement, sales force automation, and more using leading platforms from partner applications providers.

The success of your systems integration and migration project can only be as successful as the depth and breadth of the integration between you and your business partners' key applications and platforms.

If your project requires a high-level applications interface (API), quality of service (QoS) guarantees, near real-time application integration, event-driven processing, security, and management of message traffic, Akri Consulting has the skills, experience and products to bring your project to completion rapidly.

Contact us with details about your next systems integration and migration project and we will let you know how we can help.