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New Delhi: : The Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) services market in India is expected to grow at a four-year CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 37.4 per cent from $7.78 million in 2001-02 to $27.71 million by 2005-06, according to IDC India.
The verticals that represent the fastest growing opportunities for integration services are telecommunications, financial services and manufacturing. This growth in the EAI services market is due to the introduction of a plethora of new business applications, resulting in the need to enable the older applications to communicate with the new packaged enterprise software.
According to IDC, many organisations have amassed significant IT assets in the form of hardware systems, networks and software applications. Thus, the intra-organisational information-systems infrastructure consists, in many cases, of isolated applications running on disparate operating systems.
Hence, there is an inherent need for EAI to enable business processes and data to exist within heterogeneous environments and ensure that companies can deal with myriad applications from in-house, supplier, customer, and third-party environments.
The emergence of the Internet and Web-enabled exchanges, referred to by IDC as e-procurement, e-marketplaces or e-distribution Web sites, has further provided impetus to EAI by creating new needs for integration. Integration not only allows the linking of several applications together within one enterprise, but also the integration of systems from two or more different organisations and exchange sites. As a result, there is an increasing need for e-business platforms that are based on a distributed, multi-tier, component- and standards-based open computing architecture that contain strong management and integration capabilities. Hence, e-business integration services will prove to be the next frontier for EAI services companies pushing EAI adoption, it said.
The IDC report also suggests that EAI service providers should position EAI as that congealing factor that brings together the company’s information infrastructure. Also due to the dynamic nature of IT and continuous advent of new applications, the EAI provider should articulate a flexible enterprise architecture design. The goal of a far-sighted architectural design is to ensure that the technology and solutions implemented are functionally able to interact with each other over many years.
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