After completing the analysis of its IT environments, the eMerged Financial IT department began to formulate an EAI strategy that would satisfy the needs of both banking customers and brokerage customers. Essentially, the strategy called for the creation of a customer financial portal, which would provide customers with a common user interface to both the banking system and the brokerage system.
The financial portal would eventually enable both the banking and brokerage customers to perform the following activities:
After evaluating several products, the IT department selected WebSphere Integration Developer as its application development environment. WebSphere Integration Developer featured an impressive array of development tools and a comprehensive EAI capability. To complement the new WebSphere Studio development environment, the IT department selected WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation as its production server environment.
With the new development and runtime environments, the IT department was now ready to fulfill the mandate of its EAI strategy and develop the financial portal application for eMerged Financial.