Affiliations: [a] Hamdard Institute of Management Sciences (HIMS), Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan | [b] Faculty of CS & IT, Institute of Business and Technology (BIZTEK), Karachi, Pakistan
Abstract: In improving global business economics, business integration has become a key issue for many companies to extend business market by integrating and streamlining processes both internally and with partners, cost effectively. To address this issue, whole marketplace has emerged for efficient software solution that can help to achieve improved business integration for improving global business economics, which is referred as EAI. Originally EAI was only focused around integrating ERP with other applications within enterprise but now it is generally used as a catch-all term to cover all the other aspects of global business integration. Major EAI approaches and evolution of enabling technologies ranging from EDI to Web Services and XML-based process integration are analyzed to provide cost effective, flexible, scalable and adaptable global EAI framework. Solution comprises the challenge of efficiently integrating diverse business processes and data across the enterprises to improve global business economics, while allowing the organizations to keep pace with and respond to market changes.
Keywords: Global EAI, B2B integrations, business process integration, business economics and global business integration framework
