A case study of enterprise application integration based on workflow management system

Abstract

Work flow management system (WFMS) is a flexible tool for enterprise application integration (EAI). The EAI implement with work flow technology is cheap and convenient. This enlarges the view of enterprises and gives them an opportunity to integrate their legacy applications by advanced IT technology. By study on environment and stratagem of enterprises, this paper establishes a solution of the EAI based on work flow management system and presents an EAI framework with an embedded workflow management component to support busincss-to-busincss operations. Nowadays, however, such system is not common. A case study of EAI implement in Tianjin Port is presented and a brief overview of the current enterprise applications and information systems in this enterprise are also presented. © 2008 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.