Enterprise Integration - User Requirements and the AIT Approach

Facing the slow development of standards for Enterprise Integration and its supporting methods and tools, this paper tries to demonstrate the important needs of the industry for enterprise business integration, efficient change management and capitalisation of know-how acquired during the enterprise life cycle. The user needs and requirements are common to several industrial sectors such as the automotive and aerospace industries. AIT, the European Initiative on Advanced Information Technology for design and manufacturing is particularly concerned with the integration of IT innovations in its business processes.