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e gap between integration infrastructure and business process management systems.As an evolution in intraenterprise integration, the integration within an enterprise can be achieved by exposing standardsbased interfaces to other business processes. XML and Web services supported by newgeneration EAI tools help in generating standardsbased interoperable interfaces for rigid, noninteroperable legacy and packaged applications. Integration capabilities such as transformation, translations and adapters are still required. The organizations will be able to leverage existing assets seamlessly by enabling them to participate in SOA, where they can be consumed by new or existing processes. SOA increases reusability and enables loosecoupling between processes. Sometimes, the embedded and interrelated processes that exist in legacy or packaged applications make it difficult for organizations to build a true SOA. The enterprises may have to strategically depose these interrelated processes and repose them using standardsbased mechanisms. This will bring interrelated processes into a process management environment, where business people will be able to control them in a better manner.XML and Web services are gaining wide acceptance as a B2B collaboration protocol in the interenterprise integration space. EDIbased industry standards are moving toward XML. XMLbased industry standards and the Internet are replacing EDI and expensive VAN. Newgeneration B2Bi tools are supporting emerging standards such as XML, SOAP and ebXML.To participate in the SOA space, some legacy and packaged application vendors have already started work on providing Web services support to their existing and new solutions. Human workflow provides documentcentric integration aimed at collaborative human activities.Taking serviceoriented approaches toward integration will have significant benefits, including:l Increasing process reuse and leverages existing assetsl Enabling loosecoupling between processes, and s