In its April 2001 report for AIIM International, "Enterprise Applications: Adoption of E-Business and Document Technologies, 2000–2001: Worldwide Industry Study," Gartner defines EAI as "the unrestricted sharing of data and business processes among any connected applications and data sources in the enterprise." Gable, Julie (March–April 2002). "Enterprise application integration"(PDF). Information Management Journal. Retrieved 2008-01-22.