The XCS Enterprise Integration Platform (XCS eiPlatform) is a complete Java framework that leverages application server technology, web services and industry XML standards to enable the deployment of internal and external system interfaces better, faster and less expensively than ever before possible. Specific benefits to be realized by implementing the XCS eiPlatform include: -* Dramatically lowering the total number of interfaces required between internal and external business applications by implementing a many-to-one and one-to-many (common model integration) method of managing interfaces. -* Rationalizing the myriad of data formats, communication protocols, programming languages and encryption methods used through transformation to a single common set of standards. -* Facilitating the management and propagation of information to support mission-critical applications, customer relationship management and business acquisition. -* Enabling the implementation of industry XML standards immediately, while still supporting the proprietary formats of internal and external applications and services.