Hi,
Is OpenWorld an EAI tool? Or is it just an enhanced version of BCBE?
Thanks.

According to Baan OpenWorld is an EAI tool. The BOW Adapter can be seen as the replacement of BCBE however it already has better and more functionality as BCBE.

Baan OpenWorld consists of a lot more products than just the adapter:
- Connectors (for java, xml, sap, .net)
- Baan OpenWorld Broker
- Development environment (Studio)

The complete product can be seen as an EAI tool.

Youp

Open World has the key features required for an EAI tool
like Messaging, Semantic/Syntactic Data Mapping, Business Object Modelling,XML connectors...etc

But it is very much centered towards Baan ERP. Not many adapters for third party.

I feel other EAI vendors like TIBCO, Webmethods are far ahead...

This article gives a good overview of EAI

http://www.eaijournal.com/PDF/ABCEAI.pdf