Enterprise Application Integration Strategy Toolkit

Author(s): Ibrahim Abdel-Kader

This toolkit helps build an enterprise application integration strategy by guiding you through use cases, principles, integration approach selection, and testing considerations. Follow the sheets in order and fill in the required information.

Tab 2. Use Case Scenarios: Document integration use cases (systems involved, objectives, etc.).

Tab 3. Guiding Principles: List the key principles to guide integration decisions.

Tabs 4-7. Integration Approach: Q&A to determine coupling (synchronous vs. asynchronous) and suggest integration patterns automatically based on answers.

Tab 8. Integration Testing: Q&A to identify reliability and monitoring measures, plus outline testing requirements for integrations (when to test and what to test).