Enterprise Application Integration refers to the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer applications in an enterprise. More than just providing a framework, EAI helps to make the entire distributed system faster and more tightly coupled so that future enhancements like adding web services can be integrated with ease. One overall effect of adding an EAI framework to an enterprise system is the reduction in complexity of the entire company's IT infrastructure. In turn, the reduction in complexity enables an organization to improve their network's reliability, flexibility and scalability. All of these pieces combined into one enterprise solution gives any organization the ability to focus on improving business practices instead of worrying about infrastructure details pertaining to supporting new initiatives to capitalize on shifts in the market.

Highpoint Solutions' consultants are distributed throughout the globe. This allows for independence among vendors as well as industries. Leveraged research, vendor intelligence and process management can help your company form a strong partnership with Highpoint Solutions in order to accomplish any task with overwhelming success.

One unique aspect of Enterprise Information Integration is the ability to transform and analyze data without the requirement of moving it off of the system-centric server already designed to handle all of your company's data manipulations. Given the proper IT infrastructure, EII can actually increase your existing system's processing power by managing data to provide more comprehensive and more complex queries. Although Enterprise Information Integration is still considered to be an emerging technology, Highpoint Solutions has already recognized the need for and usefulness of EII in multiple industries throughout the world. Whether your company is a large government organization or a leading adopter of new technology in order to always maintain an advantage over the competition, Highpoint Solutions' EII developers can create innovative new solutions for your company that maximize the utility of existing systems while simultaneously increasing data flow and information management. All of this naturally adds up to increasing the competitive advantage for your company while improving internal processes and lowering costs.

Highpoint Solutions recognizes the need for global communication in all of today's leading industries. Therefore, consultants are distributed throughout the entire world economy. This allows for independence among vendors as well as industries. In turn, Highpoint Solutions employees are able to leverage research, vendor intelligence and process management for your company, forming a strong partnership, in order to accomplish any task with overwhelming success.

Whether your environment is single or multi-sourced, Highpoint Solutions' employees can help your company to manage a variety of challenges from managing providers to responding to industry shifts in a timely manner. Highpoint Solutions' expertise in the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) space includes specialization on middleware products like Tibco, Seebeyond, webMethods, WebSphere, MQSeries, Vitria and Mercator (Datastage TX). Highpoint Solutions has also developed an optimized EAI Project methodology and product evaluation framework based on work experience with large Fortune 500 companies across industry domains and geographies.

Services offerings in Enterprise Application Integration and Enterprise Information Integration provide the following:

• Reduces systems/IT total cost of ownership
• Maximizes investments in existing systems
• Implements business change in underlying information technology systems
• Provides global enterprise visibility of information and business processes
• Extends supply chain visibility

Highpoint Solutions offers the following services to our customers in the EAI and EII spaces: