Business Process Integration: The Next Wave
- by Anders Gruden and Peter Stranegard.
Enterprise Application Integration. January 2003.
The next wave in Enterprise Application Integration will be based on information needs defined by business processes. This represents a shift from a technology-led approach driven by a need for a faster, more flexible, less costly integration. Business Process Integration provides intelligent tools for designing business processes while simultaneously connecting them to underlying applications. This article does not deal with integrating resources other than data... but it can help frame the technical issues.
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