Autor: Stephan Aier

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is an approach to improve system interoperability in a business process oriented fashion. The described empirical research study examines the impact of the general organizational understanding, the manner of implementation and deployment of EAI projects on the enterprise architecture. The article illustrates the results and introduces some advice how to improve the recognized issues of the EAI situation in real life context.

The target of complex IT-projects is the improvement of flexibility and sustainability of organisational architectures. The main topic of the article is the definition and implementation of modules of organisational and IT-structures to increase flexibility. Approaches found in the area of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) fit the described paradigm and support the technical implementation.