Business Process Integration (BPI)

Business Process Integration (BPI) refers to the ability to define a commonly acceptable business process model that specifies the sequence, hierarchy, events, execution logic and information movement between systems residing in the same enterprise (viz. EAI) or systems residing in multiple interconnected enterprises.

The primary problem with business process integration lies in how a business process embedded in one application is being bridged into the process of another. The business processes linked together are described in terms of activities or Workflows and bring human Actors as a distinguishing element of the solution.

BPI solutions allow enterprises to take advantage of systems that are already in place by automating and managing the business processes that span these systems. With BPI, enterprises can preserve major investments in legacy systems thereby avoiding the expense of having to write additional code to replicate existing functionality. [Papazoglou & Ribbers, 2006]

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