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Proceedings of the 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2003 Towards a Novel Framework for the Assessment of Enterprise Application Integration Packages 1 Marinos Themistocleous , Marinos.Themistocleous@brunel.ac.uk Zahir Irani, Zahir.Irani@brunel.ac.uk Information Systems Evaluation and Integration Network Group (ISEing) Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK Abstract 1999). As a result, organisations attempt to parameterise ERP packages to better support their In addressing enterprise integration problems, a diversity business processes and strategies. However, of technologies such as CORBA and XML were customisation is a difficult task that causes promoted, yet no single integration technology solves all significant integration problems as ERP systems are: integration problems. As a result, a new generation of (a) complex; (b) non-flexible and, (c) often not software called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is emerging to addresses many integration problems by designed to collaborate with other autonomous combining a diversity of integration technologies (e.g. applications (Sprott, 2000; Stefanou, 2000). Thus, it message brokers