EAI Service Offerings

From enterprise application integration consulting, through product evaluation and SAP integration all the way to open source integration, MindTree has the expertise and experience to ensure continuous, secure, and actionable flows of information across your enterprise.

EAI Consulting

MindTree engages with you to evaluate current and future integration needs, and assist with the assessment of disparate ecosystems. Our consultants can also help identify specific problem areas and provide customized EAI solutions.

Product Evaluations

Most EAI tools are platform and language independent, though certain tools have superior capabilities around certain technologies (.Net, J2EE, AS/400, Mainframe) and domains (telecom, healthcare, insurance, travel). MindTree can help you with understanding the pros and cons of using certain EAI tools for integration scenarios. Product evaluations help you make the right decisions while investing in EAI tools. MindTree’s EAI Centre of Excellence (CoE), with its vast experience of working on leading EAI tools, is well positioned in providing valuable consulting services such as product evaluations and tool/technology recommendations.

Adapter Development

Adapter development can be the most complex part of any integration solution. Adapters allow extraction and loading of data from the respective applications and databases to be integrated. Building adapters requires use of the application’s existing API’s, or the API’s provided by EAI tools. EAI tools like IBM MQ/WBI, webMethods and TIBCO provide a suite of adapters for packaged and legacy applications/databases. MindTree’s EAI practice has carried out significant adapter development work for integrating SAP and Mainframe applications for leading global organizations.

Legacy Application and Data Integration

This involves integrating backend legacy systems with front-end applications like portals, and CRM solutions. Currently, MindTree’s EAI group provides such solutions using leading EAI tools like IBM WebSphere MQ/WBI, TIBCO, BizTalk and webMethods. MindTree’s expertise in Mainframe, AS/400, databases, and other legacy applications gives us an edge in providing integration solutions for complex integration scenarios.

SAP Integration

Traditionally, integrating SAP applications with the outside world used to be extremely difficult, due to limited interfacing provided by SAP. EAI vendors like IBM and webMethods addressed this business need, providing SAP adapters as part of their integration offerings. Recently, SAP has also addressed this issue through its SAP Net Weaver/XI offering. MindTree’s dedicated SAP practice has enabled our EAI practice to build capabilities to provide SAP Integration solutions, using expertise on both traditional EAI tools and SAP XI.

Enabling SOA through SOA / Web services / Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is based on a collection of services that communicate with each other. The services are self-contained and one service does not depend on the context or state of another service. They work within a distributed systems architecture and are platform and language agnostic. SOA-based architecture is currently adopted using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a method that is widely gaining acceptance. The ESB provides a non-proprietary integration backbone for applications and services to communicate with each other, providing messaging, message brokering, and service orchestration services using industry standards. MindTree has significant experience implementing EAI tool-based SOA/ESB solutions.

Open Source and Standards-Based Integration

There is now a noticeable shift towards Open Source and standards-based integration technologies. MindTree understands that this is mainly due to the vendor monopolies on integration technologies – resulting in costly solutions, vendor lock-ins, and proprietary technologies. Open Source and standards-based solutions mean increase in development times, but the solutions are light-weight, cheaper, and ensure no vendor lock-in. MindTree brings experience in consulting, product evaluation, and developing solutions using Open Source technologies like JBOSS ESB/messaging, JBPM, Mule, and JRules; and standard technologies like XML/XSLT/XPATH, JBI, and JMS to name a few.