Part of the problem with, and expense of, EAI is the sheer number of applications that could potentially be connected within any given enterprise, which gives rise to what Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at technology consultancy ZapThink, calls “the point-to-point connection problem.” It’s one thing, the analyst says, to connect one system to one other system, creating one link in each direction, but if you have 10 systems to connect, that can create up to 90 point-to-point connections.

Additionally, Bloomberg suggests that companies often find EAI implementations to be particularly difficult because of the pace at which the business environment and a company’s IT landscape change. Says Bloomberg: “It’s hard to sit down and write all the requirements for what you want [in EAI], go out and buy it and then install it. By the time you do that, your requirements are all different because business just moves too fast.”

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