2001년 4월, 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”. 《Information Management Journal》. 2008년 1월 22일에 확인함.다음 날짜 값 확인 필요: |date= (도움말)
