Application integration in the Boeing enterprise

Today's e-Commerce world has suddenly created huge application integration requirements within large enterprises. For Boeing, additional demands ale often imperative when they work with suppliers and partners to create a virtual enterprise that contains unique integration requirements. The fast moving, electronic world can only be managed and exploited properly if application integration is founded on a robust architecture. This paper traces a successful implementation of such an architecture, as well as presenting the way it is evolving to solve these new future challenges.