Overview

As today's businesses transform themselves into on demand e-businesses, responsiveness and flexibility are increasingly high-priority issues. Companies must be able to quickly adapt and respond to a changing marketplace, and the consequences of slow response can be severe. In an effort to support, accelerate and optimize business processes and to meet new business requirements, companies acquire and develop new applications. The integration of these applications within various, disparate systems has itself become a serious challenge.

One aspect of today's business integration requirements is the need to leverage existing enterprise information system (EIS) assets in a heterogeneous, integrated enterprise. Whether the business need is to share business data across disparate Enterprise Information System (EIS) assets, automate business processes across EISs, employees, and business partners, connect new e-business applications to existing EISs, or provide users with access to EIS business data, there is a common requirement to provide interfaces to EISs.

IBM WebSphere Business Integration adapters provide a large suite of ready-to-use adapters for interfacing to various EISs. These adapters are based on a common framework that allows you to adapt, configure and operate the adapters in a consistent manner, while using them in different deployment configurations within the WebSphere software platform to meet varying business integration needs.

IBM WebSphere Business Integration adapters offer a basic communication interface into or out of the application for which they were developed. They also act as a first abstraction layer for the integration server through the representation of business transactions in the form of business objects.

WebSphere Business Integration adapters can be used in simple or complex business integration solutions, providing access to EIS business data for application connectivity, process integration, e-business applications, and business portals.

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