More than connecting applications
At Sierra, EAI means much more than just its underlying technology. At the heart of our approach is the concept of providing a common ground, an exchange, for business events: the information-based actions by one organization that initiate or answer corresponding actions by another.
The key word is “business” With every step from design to deployment, our focus is on organizational processes and goals. We’re there to make sure that business requirements drive technology, and not the reverse.
From a strategic perspective, EAI makes true inter-business automation possible. It enables companies to automate their interactions with trading partners, often with competitive benefits. Within a diversified organization, EAI can provide a flexible and dynamic interface between autonomous operations. It also empowers management to add or to divest itself of select operations, without disrupting ongoing processes.
On a more immediate scale, Sierra-guided EAI can also serve the crucial, bottom-line objectives of IT management:
- Extending the life of existing applications,
- Minimizing the need for future application re-development
- Preserving the business logic of legacy applications
- Enhancing return on all technology investment.