In
today’s business computing environment it is
common to find business applications that
have been developed to solve specific business problems. These applications
have typically been developed independently of one another,
with no means of communicating effectively
between applications. In the past these applications have performed
their business functions
quite nicely with no need of communicating with external applications.
In recent years however
several driving factors such as reduction in data entry, faster transaction
processing and increase in ROI have come which require the integration
of these disparate
applications. Microsoft .net technology has made it possible to integrate
many of the Microsoft products in order to serve businesses better.
Some these integrations include: