Toward Application Integration with Multimedia Data

Traditionally, enterprise application integration (EAI) processes structured data. Recent trends such as social and multimedia computing led to an increase in unstructured multimedia data like images and video streams that have to be processed by EAI. This poses challenges to EAI with respect to variety, velocity, and volume of the processed data. Furthermore, multimedia data has more semantic qualities (e.g., emotions) compared to structured data, making the data processing and user interaction more difficult. In this work, we conduct a literature review of industrial and mobile applications with respect to their usage of EAI in multimedia computing. We derive multimedia operations and map them to the enterprise integration patterns (EIPs). We propose a realization that allows to interact with EAI processes taking the multimedia semantics into account, discuss EAI architecture extensions and study message processing challenges.