Web-Service Framework for Business Process Modelling & Legacy Systems Integration

In today's business climate, the need to be flexible, agile and highly responsive to market changes is leading many enterprises to rely increasingly on novel Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Any change to business models & business processes should be supported by the rules on how the business is put together, and by the corresponding ability of the underlying IT infrastructure to transparently adopt such changes and enhance business operations. Our approach, the Enterprise Information Suite (EIS), addresses and tries to sufficiently solve the issues of enterprise application integration and Business process modelling by exploiting the potentials of Web Services towards the realisation of Services Oriented Software Development that enables users to configure and interact with applications that span across enterprises as well as through the functional borders within one enterprise. In this paper the overall architecture and the principal components of EIS are presented and the application of business process management and enterprise application integration based on EIS for the Banking sector is given.