Enterprise Application is the hottest update that newscasts in the enterprise industry, but Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is not just a word, but a technology derived by a real business need. It is also a technology which is mostly misunderstood and misrepresented in the industry. Therefore, EAI is a middleware which is applied to help you either by building new distributed applications which accesses the existing applications and data, or simply integrate all the existing applications by supporting simpler more controlled inter application communication. The key difference between EAI middleware and ordinary middleware is that the existing applications can remain as they are - taking the risk away from integration and reuse.
Today's enterprise application development is complex in nature, with the content and services coming from multiple sources. Business transactions cross a chain of multiple components within both the physical and virtual environments of your data center e.g. web and application servers, firewalls, file systems, databases, middleware and operating systems.
Research shows that enterprise application downtime and slowdowns have significant repercussions, such as:
€ Employee turnover or productivity loss
€ Decreased revenues
€ Lost credibility
€ Damaged business reputation
When there is a launch and up-gradation of enterprise applications, then you need to consider several key features. Will the application:
€ Perform ideally across the network and in all infrastructure tiers that matter?
€ Scale under-load and provide quality application experiences to all users?
€ Perform ideally from any location and any time?
€ Be used and adopted by internal users or employees?
To ensure the success, it requires outcome and resolving problems prior to deploying applications across the entire application delivery chain. This requires monitoring of all real-user traffic for any application or user, including employees and customers using web, non-web or mobile. It ensures that you can track and analyze transactions across an unlimited number of tiers to diagnose root causes in the context of the end-user experience.
While enterprise app stores like the SAP Store help fix a traditionally inefficient process, the simplicity doesn't fool anyone. Enterprise apps stores are wrought with challenges, much more than a consumer app store such as Apple's App Store. Issues ranging from neutrality to app certification to software reviews plague vendor-hosted enterprise app stores.
It should be noted that the term "enterprise app store" is used in this case as a vendor-hosted electronic marketplace serving up apps to customers. And this shouldn't be mixed with any other enterprise app store, where companies work for the other apps (typically mobile devices ones) to the employees.
Generally, these challenges are faced and not overcome even if we use the SAP Store functionality in the system. Up to now, though the SAP Store is showing some signs of success in its very first year. This enterprise app store is ever-changing and the way enterprise software is shaping-up, especially mobile apps, it is being discovered, evaluated, bought, deployed and used.
Today's enterprise application development is complex in nature, with the content and services coming from multiple sources. Business transactions cross a chain of multiple components within both the physical and virtual environments of your data center e.g. web and application servers, firewalls, file systems, databases, middleware and operating systems.
Research shows that enterprise application downtime and slowdowns have significant repercussions, such as:
€ Employee turnover or productivity loss
€ Decreased revenues
€ Lost credibility
€ Damaged business reputation
When there is a launch and up-gradation of enterprise applications, then you need to consider several key features. Will the application:
€ Perform ideally across the network and in all infrastructure tiers that matter?
€ Scale under-load and provide quality application experiences to all users?
€ Perform ideally from any location and any time?
€ Be used and adopted by internal users or employees?
To ensure the success, it requires outcome and resolving problems prior to deploying applications across the entire application delivery chain. This requires monitoring of all real-user traffic for any application or user, including employees and customers using web, non-web or mobile. It ensures that you can track and analyze transactions across an unlimited number of tiers to diagnose root causes in the context of the end-user experience.
While enterprise app stores like the SAP Store help fix a traditionally inefficient process, the simplicity doesn't fool anyone. Enterprise apps stores are wrought with challenges, much more than a consumer app store such as Apple's App Store. Issues ranging from neutrality to app certification to software reviews plague vendor-hosted enterprise app stores.
It should be noted that the term "enterprise app store" is used in this case as a vendor-hosted electronic marketplace serving up apps to customers. And this shouldn't be mixed with any other enterprise app store, where companies work for the other apps (typically mobile devices ones) to the employees.
Generally, these challenges are faced and not overcome even if we use the SAP Store functionality in the system. Up to now, though the SAP Store is showing some signs of success in its very first year. This enterprise app store is ever-changing and the way enterprise software is shaping-up, especially mobile apps, it is being discovered, evaluated, bought, deployed and used.
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