Abstract:

This paper describes a set of key success factors identified as common denominators in several studied successful real world Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects. The possibility to enable successful and maintainable EAI should be of crucial interest for basically all of todays businesses, where we only see an increased need for successful EAI both in a business as well as in a business to business perspective. For over two years we have through action research actively participated in several successful EAI projects, in all of these projects we can note that common key success factors are the use of common canonical formats for data exchange, open source and ESB for EAI infrastructure, enterprise integration patterns, andthe establishment of an integration competency center.