EXTOL Integration Studio (EIS) is an easy-to-use, design-time modeling environment for creating, testing, deploying, and maintaining integration applications for EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI) or its subsidiary EXTOL Data Integrator products. With EIS, you can:

• Create new integration processes in minutes, without traditional coding
• Integrate external trading partners and services, internal applications and services, and enterprise data resources, in any combination, with one set of tools and skills
• Build integration processes that run on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and IBM i OS
• Deliver integration applications that require less maintenance and are easier to extend
• Operate on virtually any type of business data, including XML documents, EDI data, databases, flat files, and spreadsheets
• Build integration applications incrementally, testing and incorporating business user feedback at multiple stages

EIS provides a graphical workbench and repository-driven tool set that support all aspects of the integration life cycle, including:

• Project definition
• Metadata-driven business document definition for XML, EDI, flat file, spreadsheet, and database syntax categories
• Process modeling
• Specification of rule sets to transform, enrich, and route business data
• Adapter configuration
• Event and schedule configuration
• Interactive testing
• Process monitoring
• Process auditing and debugging
• Object and project archiving and deployment

EIS enables complete specification of sophisticated integration processes, with support for process composition, object reuse, and iterative development, without traditional coding. It offers the power needed to tackle large, complex integration problems, yet is accessible to IT professionals with limited experience and technical skills.