Short for Enterprise Information Integration, EII is
software that combines
various data sources at an enterprise level in order to support
applications
that present or analyze the data in new ways. EII provides a service that allows
administrators, developers, and end-users to treat a broad array of data sources
as if they were one large database or data service. EII is software
infrastructure not an application. However, it does support the creation of
applications.
InternetNews.com Article: First Fruits of IBM's Xperanto Experiment Giga Information Group Research Director Philip Russom praised the fruits of Xperanto, but cautioned that the market for enterprise information integration (EII), as it's known, is far too nascent to predict whether IBM's on-demand computing strategy will work with the new DB2 products.
