The business value of Application Integration
Have you seen or read “The Twelve Tasks of Asterix”? Do you recall "The Place That Sends You Mad" task? While this is most of all a joke on bureaucracy, you can also think of it as living in an environment without communication. Regardless of the mechanics behind – paper documents delivered to the offices by internal messenger, pneumatic tubes system, modern computer network, Telepathy data transfer – the problem is that data is not flowing from one involved party (office) to the other. As a result, no work is being done and finally the system collapses when disturbance is introduced (it is the purposeful action of Asterix in the movie/comic… but could be anything in the real world).
