Exploring EAI
EAI typically involves a variety of products and technologies, making EAI complex to achieve. Also, besides the technical challenges, the complexity of the organizational structure and any associated IT management strategies brings further challenges to the situation. The main causes of failure to achieve EAI are the constraints of cost and insufficient tooling support to orchestrate the integration workflows. Most legacy applications have limited support for integration models.
However, over time, certain patterns and standards have been established to streamline integrations. The adoption of API-led architectures has allowed application developers to open up legacy applications that were otherwise difficult to integrate with. The domain of EAI has gained popularity among enterprise architects, as they have found solutions to tackle integration and interoperability challenges across different types of applications.
