Adding BPEL to the Enterprise Integration Mix

Overview

Most organizations have a highly disparate application infrastructure comprising a variety of applications from multiple vendors, running on different platforms, and created with completely different technologies. Traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) products - from companies such as TIBCO, webMethods, Vitria, and SeeBeyond - have emerged in the last decade to tackle these integration challenges. Over the last few years, many organizations have made significant investments in these EAI solutions. As a result, business integrations in the EAI space tend to be locked into a single vendor and the integration components are tightly coupled. The cost of maintaining these proprietary integration links is a significant burden. Specialized skills are required, exacerbating the cost and stability concerns.