Spatial world chants the EAI mantra  Sumathi Chutkay InfoTech Enterprises Limited,Plot # 11, Infocity, Madhapur, Hyderabad,India – 500 033 e-mail : sumathig@infotech.stph.net Fax: 91-40-2310 1402, Tel: 91-40-2310 0857 Abstract In today’s scenario of rapid and continuous Business Process changes and requirements there is a demand for upgradation to the best of state-of-art Technology. As the scope of industry is extending and developing into cosmopolitan by nature, business policies are becoming more global. Information should flow from desk-to-desk, department-to-department, organization-to-organization, organization-to-partners and organization-to-customers. The Industry direction is maneuvering towards Enterprise Application Integration. It is indispensable for GIS corporate to adopt these growing challenges and move forward with this technology surge, lest they may loose to their competitors. In this paper we will focus on the GIS developments in align with the EAI advances. We start off with quick EAI perceptions and then look into the evolution of Enterprise Application Integration and the framework that builds it, discuss different strategies, standards and key points in EAI. We cover the spatial orbit and other Technical factors involved in enterprise level integration along the stream. |