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Integration technologies are those technologies dealing with the exchange of information between two or more independent information systems.Relational database is one of the earliest and most widely used integration technologies. By consolidating the information storage, it serves as both the storage and intermediary to allow multiple systems to exchange information. By putting all data in one place, enterprises could reduce data error and improve efficiency in data processing. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) was another major integration technology created for business transaction data exchange across enterprises. These two major technologies are earliest form of enterprise integration within and across organizations.In late 1980s, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its predecessor Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP